Benevolence
[bɪ'nev(ə)l(ə)ns;bɪ'nevəl(ə)ns;bɪ'nevələns] or [bə'
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an act intending or showing kindness and good will.
(noun.) an inclination to do kind or charitable acts.
(noun.) disposition to do good.
整理:马文--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
(n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
(n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.
克劳迪娅手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Kindness, benignity, kind-heartedness, humanity, tenderness, charitableness, good-will, disposition to do good, milk of human kindness.
整理:温弗雷德
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Kindness, goodwill, charity, philanthropy, kindliness, kind-heartedness,benignity, beneficence, liberality
ANT:Unkindness, harshness, barbarity, niggardliness, maleficence, malignity,illiberality, ill-will, churlishness
克莱德編輯
解釋/意思:
n. disposition to do good: an act of kindness: generosity: a gift of money esp. for support of the poor: (Eng. hist.) a kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority first so called under Edward IV. in 1473.—adj. Benev′olent charitable generous well disposed to.—adv. Benev′olently.
校對:露辛达
例句/造句/用法:
- This was then the reward of my benevolence! 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And there's no more benevolence bubbling out of him, than out of a ninepin. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was only an act of benevolence which your noble heart would approve. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Remember that cleanliness, sobriety, and even good-humour and benevolence, are our best medicines. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The real piety and benevolence of the simple old man invested him with a temporary dignity and authority, as he spoke. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The passions of love and hatred are always followed by, or rather conjoined with benevolence and anger. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Female benevolence and female destitution could do nothing without him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Through the beaming smile with which he regarded me as he reasoned thus, there now broke forth a look of disinterested benevolence quite astonishing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It may be imagined that things were in a bad state indeed, before this spirit of benevolence could have struck such deep roots. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- On his face it became a mild benevolence which Mrs. Archer's countenance dutifully reflected. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- This utter dependence of the speechless, bleeding youth (as a youth he regarded him) on his benevolence secured that benevolence most effectually. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Benevolence, an't it? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The trouble and expense of it to them would be nothing, compared with the benevolence of the action. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
狄伦編輯