Philanthropist
[fɪ'lænθrəpɪst]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being.
埃尔维斯手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.
伯特校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
整理:梅
娱乐性解釋/意思：
One who returns to the people publicly a small percentage of the wealth he steals from them privately.
編輯:莉齐
例句/造句/用法:
- I know not whether I am a true philanthropist; yet I am willing to aid you to the utmost of my power in a purpose so honest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Bates, Manager of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph for Robert Garrett; and Andrew Carnegie, the greatest ironmaster the world has ever known, as well as its greatest philanthropist. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You would, perhaps, think me rude if I inquired in return whether you are a philanthropist? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I am told he is an eminent philanthropist--which is decidedly against him, to begin with. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Adrian despised the narrow views of the politician, and Raymond held in supreme contempt the benevolent visions of the philanthropist. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Only the philanthropist's father and mother--Mr. and Mrs. Ablewhite. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It left that to operate in darkness--then opinion rose in an empty fury, made an outlaw of one and a platitudinous philanthropist of the other. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A pretty thing, indeed, to marry a philanthropist. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- So this old philanthropist used to make her equal run of her errands, execute her millinery, and read her to sleep with French novels, every night. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I do suppose this was the most accomplished philanthropist (on a small independence) that England ever produced. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I believe he is a sort of philanthropist, so Brooke is sure to take him up. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- This, too, when Mr. Quale, one of the first philanthropists of our time, has mentioned to me that he was really disposed to be interested in her! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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