Bounty
['baʊntɪ] or ['baʊnti]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
艾琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Liberality, munificence, beneficence, generosity.[2]. Present, gift, benefaction.[3]. Premium (for encouragement), reward.
埃莉诺校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Liberality, bounteousness, benevolence, munificence, donation, gift,generosity, charity, benignity
ANT:Illiberality, closeness, hardy, {[ess]?}, churlishness, stinginess,niggardliness
达琳錄入
解釋/意思:
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.
克利夫顿錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The liberality of one who has much in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.
錄入:昆西
例句/造句/用法:
- Upon every barrel of herrings exported, there is, besides, a bounty of 2s:8d. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It does not, however, like the American bounty, extend to the importation of undressed flax. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Between thirty and forty years ago, before the establishment of the buss-bounty, 16s. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The sixth Bounty of this kind was that granted by 11th Geo. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 雪麗.
- But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The bounty upon corn alone has sometimes cost the public, in one year, more than ?300,000. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is in this set of men, accordingly, that I have observed the greatest zeal for the continuance or renewal of the bounty. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is altogether for the benefit of the producer, that bounties are granted upon the exportation of some of his productions. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The bounties upon the exportation of British made sail-cloth, and British made gunpowder, may, perhaps, both be vindicated upon this principle. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- During these eleven years, the tonnage bounties paid amounted to ?155,463:11s. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The defalcation of the revenue of customs occasioned by bounties and drawbacks, of which a great part are obtained fraudulently, is very great. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bounties have even been given upon the exportation of some of them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bounties upon production, it has been said too, have been found by experience more liable to frauds than those upon exportation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In other respects, their effects, it must be acknowledged, are the same as those of bounties upon exportation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The first bounties of this kind were those granted about the beginning of the present century, upon the importation of naval stores from America. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bounties are sometimes called premiums, as drawbacks are sometimes called bounties. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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