Beneficent
[bɪ'nefɪs(ə)nt] or [bɪ'nɛfɪsnt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) doing or producing good; 'the most beneficent regime in history' .
(adj.) generous in assistance to the poor; 'a benevolent contributor'; 'eleemosynary relief'; 'philanthropic contributions' .
杰奎琳編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Bountiful, benevolent, benignant
ANT:Hard, uncommiserating, griping, unbeneficent, illiberal, oppressive, cruel
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例句/造句/用法:
- The beneficent effect of their activities on the health and general welfare of the masses of the people bears witness to the sanity and worth of the culture th at prompted these activities. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Thriftless gives, not from a beneficent pleasure in giving, but from a lazy delight in spending. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There, at least, is one method of sexual expression which may have positively beneficent results. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Nobody has yet invented a mechanically beneficent sovereign. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- On its beneficent side it promises a new professional interest in work, self-education, and the co-operative management of industry. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The invention of mechanical puddlers, hereinafter referred to, consisting chiefly of rotating furnaces, were among the beneficent developments of the nineteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- At such a moment this gift of despoiled Italy to the world was a noble revenge, setting in motion incalculable beneficent forces and agencies. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- How many lives have been saved, and how far advanced has become the knowledge of the human body and its painful diseases, by this beneficent remedy! 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- To serve the people means to provide it with services--with clean streets and water, with education, with opportunity, with beneficent channels for its desires, with moral equivalents for evil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His gentleman is not the battlefield of wants and prohibitions; in him impulses flow freely through beneficent channels. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- What never occurred to them was that it might find a good, a positively beneficent method. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- How entirely compatible that way of living then was with the most useful and beneficent activities his life shows. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sleeping thus under the beneficent eye of heaven, can evil visit thee, O Earth, or grief cradle to their graves thy luckless children? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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