Wealth
[welθ] or [wɛlθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of profuse abundance; 'she has a wealth of talent'.
(noun.) property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value.
(noun.) an abundance of material possessions and resources.
(noun.) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; 'great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence'.
手打:珀西瓦尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
(n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
編輯:希娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Affluence, opulence, abundance, fortune, independence, competence, riches, mammon, pelf, money, treasure, funds, cash, property, easy circumstances, ample store, ample means.
珍妮特編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Influence, riches, mammon, lucre, plenty, affluence, abundance, opulence
ANT:Indigence, poverty, scarcity, impecuniosity
整理:米切尔
解釋/意思:
n. large possessions of any kind: riches.—adv. Wealth′ily.—n. Wealth′iness.—adj. Wealth′y rich: prosperous: well-fed.
手打:凯勒
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you are possessed of much wealth, foretells that you will energetically nerve yourself to meet the problems of life with that force which compells success. To see others wealthy, foretells that you will have friends who will come to your rescue in perilous times. For a young woman to dream that she is associated with wealthy people, denotes that she will have high aspirations and will manage to enlist some one who is able to further them.
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例句/造句/用法:
- To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- His father was Sillerton Jackson's uncle, his mother a Pennilow of Boston; on each side there was wealth and position, and mutual suitability. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- 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.
- Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Before that time Spain had always been a poor country; it is a poor country to-day, almost its only wealth lies in its mines. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The self-deceptions of wealth, power, and prominence wear thin. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He smiled, I must make on Miss Barkley the impression of a man of sufficient wealth. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The socialist demand for a better distribution of wealth is of great consequence, but without a change in the very nature of labor society will not have achieved the happiness it expects. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I have health, wealth, and youth; but I feel the stings of the rod all the same. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Perhaps the Modern Period with its flexibility, sense of change, and desire for self-direction is a liberation due to the great surplus of wealth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Water power is as great a source of wealth as a coal bed or a gold mine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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