Benefit
['benɪfɪt] or ['bɛnɪfɪt]
解释:
(noun.) something that aids or promotes well-being; 'for the benefit of all'.
(noun.) a performance to raise money for a charitable cause.
(noun.) financial assistance in time of need.
(verb.) be beneficial for; 'This will do you good'.
艾丽莎手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
(n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
(n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
(n.) Beneficence; liberality.
(n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
(v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
编辑:路易斯
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office.[2]. Advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest.
v. a. [1]. Befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on.[2]. Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.
安吉洛手打
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing
ANT:Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury,privation
录入:厄普顿
解释:
n. a kindness: a favour: any advantage natural or other: a performance at a theatre the proceeds of which go to one of the company.—v.t. to do good to.—v.i. to gain advantage (with from) —ns. Ben′efit-of-cler′gy in old English law the exemption of the persons of ecclesiastics from criminal process before a secular judge they being responsible only to their ordinary. This privilege at first limited to those in actual orders was in 1350 extended to all manner of clerks and in later practice to all who could read whether of clergy or laity; Ben′efit-of-in′ventory (Scots law) a legal privilege whereby an heir secured himself against unlimited liability for his ancestor by giving up within the annus deliberandi an inventory of his heritage or real estate to the extent of which alone was the heir liable.—Benefit societies associations for mutual benefit chiefly among the labouring classes better known as Friendly societies.
录入:厄普顿
例句:
- I don't speak of your lover--I will give you the benefit of the doubt in that matter, for it only affects me personally. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Nor was any new office created or any new official title invented for his benefit. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A young man naturally conceives an aversion to labour, when for a long time he receives no benefit from it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We have given the pilgrims a good many examples that might benefit them, but it is virtue thrown away. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Mr. Bullock to continue, for their joint benefit, the affairs of the commercial house, or to go out, as he thought fit. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- They cling to some arrangement, hoping against experience that a government freed from human nature will automatically produce human benefits. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Here again was given a most convincing demonstration of the truth that such an addition to the resources of mankind always carries with it unsuspected benefits even for its enemies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- She would take no more benefits from us; she would fling us her name back again, and she would go. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- How _they_ might be benefited, how _they_ must rejoice in such an establishment for you, is nothing to _you_. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- And the men had been benefited in their fashion. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Ah, said the Rector, with a nod of satisfaction, you have benefited by the music of the birds already. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- To this question a strict regard for truth compels the answer that they have not been benefited at all, not to the extent of a single dollar, so far as cash damages are concerned. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The hypercritical may cavil and say that, as a manufacturer of cement, Edison will be benefited. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Its founder desired while benefiting the poor to enlist th e sympathies of the fashionable world. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- None, except St. Pierre, was inimical to me; but which of them had the art, the thought, the habit, of benefiting thus tenderly? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
手打:波莱特