Bounty
['baʊntɪ] or ['baʊnti]
解释:
(noun.) a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat.
(noun.) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely.
(noun.) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military.
阿弗丽达整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
(n.) Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
(n.) That which is given generously or liberally.
(n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
艾琳编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Liberality, munificence, beneficence, generosity.[2]. Present, gift, benefaction.[3]. Premium (for encouragement), reward.
埃莉诺校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Liberality, bounteousness, benevolence, munificence, donation, gift,generosity, charity, benignity
ANT:Illiberality, closeness, hardy, {[ess]?}, churlishness, stinginess,niggardliness
达琳录入
解释:
n. liberality in bestowing gifts: the gift bestowed: money offered as an inducement to enter the army or as a premium to encourage any branch of industry.—adjs. Boun′teous Boun′tiful liberal in giving: generous.—advs. Boun′teously Boun′tifully.—ns. Boun′teousness Boun′tifulness; Boun′tihood.—Lady Bountiful a character in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem now used for the great lady of any district.
克利夫顿录入
娱乐性解释：
n. The liberality of one who has much in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.
录入:昆西
例句:
- Upon every barrel of herrings exported, there is, besides, a bounty of 2s:8d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It does not, however, like the American bounty, extend to the importation of undressed flax. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Between thirty and forty years ago, before the establishment of the buss-bounty, 16s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The sixth Bounty of this kind was that granted by 11th Geo. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Her seasonable bounty consoled many a poor family against the coming holiday, and supplied many a child with a new frock or bonnet for the occasion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The bounty upon corn alone has sometimes cost the public, in one year, more than ?300,000. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is in this set of men, accordingly, that I have observed the greatest zeal for the continuance or renewal of the bounty. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- What is called a bounty, is sometimes no more than a drawback, and, consequently, is not liable to the same objections as what is properly a bounty. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is altogether for the benefit of the producer, that bounties are granted upon the exportation of some of his productions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The bounties upon the exportation of British made sail-cloth, and British made gunpowder, may, perhaps, both be vindicated upon this principle. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- During these eleven years, the tonnage bounties paid amounted to ?155,463:11s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The defalcation of the revenue of customs occasioned by bounties and drawbacks, of which a great part are obtained fraudulently, is very great. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Bounties have even been given upon the exportation of some of them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Bounties upon production, it has been said too, have been found by experience more liable to frauds than those upon exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In other respects, their effects, it must be acknowledged, are the same as those of bounties upon exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- If bounties are as improper as I have endeavoured to prove them to be, the sooner they cease, and the lower they are, so much the better. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The first bounties of this kind were those granted about the beginning of the present century, upon the importation of naval stores from America. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Bounties are sometimes called premiums, as drawbacks are sometimes called bounties. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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