Beneficence
[bɪ'nefɪsəns]
解释:
(noun.) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous.
(noun.) doing good; feeling beneficent.
迪莉娅编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
录入:萨姆纳
同义词及近义词：
n. Charity, bounty, liberality, generosity, alms-giving, active goodness, kind action, doing of good.
校对:蒂米
解释:
n. active goodness: kindness: charity: a beneficent gift.—n. Benefic′ency (obs.).—adjs. Benef′icent; Beneficen′tial.—adv. Benef′icently.
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例句:
- From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Raymond recognized her; and his manner changed from polite beneficence to the warmest protestations of kindness and sympathy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Her beneficence was the familiar topic of the poor in Briarfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- This was both prayer and praise, and no more lofty recognition of the divine power and beneficence could have been made. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- That was the nauseating method of nineteenth century economists when they tried to identify the brutal practices of capitalism with the beneficence of nature and the Will of God. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
编辑:维姬