Beneficence
[bɪ'nefɪsəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous.
(noun.) doing good; feeling beneficent.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
錄入:萨姆纳
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Charity, bounty, liberality, generosity, alms-giving, active goodness, kind action, doing of good.
校對:蒂米
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Raymond recognized her; and his manner changed from polite beneficence to the warmest protestations of kindness and sympathy. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Her beneficence was the familiar topic of the poor in Briarfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- This was both prayer and praise, and no more lofty recognition of the divine power and beneficence could have been made. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
編輯:维姬