| 词汇 | example_english_well-to-do |
| 释义 | Examples of well-to-doThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In this sense, landscapes may be found hanging on the walls of the mansions of the well-to-do, and of city art galleries around the world. Many of the uninsured are well-to-do young people who simply choose to self-insure, and many more are already eligible for public programs. The work depicts a once well-to-do family's eviction from their ancestral estate, because of the father's gambling debts and, doubtless, general extravagance. Many seemingly well-to-do mid-lifers were content with their prosperity and secure about the future. Together with the courtiers and aristocrats, new consumers included the well-to-do gentry and merchants who tried to imitate the lifestyles of the social elite. In the midst of all this, she offers as illustration four case studies of breach of promise, mainly among the well-to-do or upper classes. The well-to-do would be better off with the general availability of clean air, clean water, and sewage treatment. Students who could not afford to pay the costly private fees felt alienated from their more well-to-do classmates. Nor was the garden suburb envisaged as an enclave of the well-to-do. The conduct of the principals in these cases suggested the decadence and corruption of family life among the socially prominent and well-to-do. The fourth village (4,000) has an older and less well-to-do population. Older working-class women, for example, could get help with shopping, cleaning and cooking, help that the more well-to-do had always taken for granted. At first the practice was probably confined to the gentry and well-to-do who could afford physicians' and midwives' fees. A more well-to-do applicant planned to use the timber from forty oaks, each about 150 years old, 'to repair his buildings, barns and stockyard'. Despite being born into a fairly well-to-do family, the harsh deprivations he suffered in his youth likely planted in him feelings of alienation. However, elsewhere, we are told that the power of the state resides in official hands which belong overwhelmingly to an aristocratic, well-to-do elite. In general, poor townspeople did not want a baladiyya, whereas the well-to-do were more favorably disposed toward it. During the eighteenth century several well-to-do farmers and traders were awarded this title. Intensive farming also made use of other purchaseable resources, such as fertiliser and the heavily-employed animal labour, that were more accessible to the well-to-do landowner than the landless labourer. Although they were well-to-do travellers, accompanied by male and female servants as well as friends during various legs of the journey, the conditions of their travel were not always comfortable. The capital intensity of groundwater extraction makes it easier to exclude rival users especially in fragile resource regions, making the resource privy to a few well-to-do households. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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