| 词汇 | generous |
| 释义 | generous adjective uk /ˈdʒen.ər.əs/ us /ˈdʒen.ər.əs/ generousadjective (CHARACTER)B1 willing to give money, help, kindness, etc., especially more than is usual or expected: （尤指超乎一般或期望地）慷慨的，大方的;宽宏大量的，仁慈的 a very generous man非常慷慨的人 [ + to infinitive ]It was generous of you to lend me the money.你借给我钱，心肠可真是太好了。 generous withShe's been very generous with her time.她不吝投入大量时间。 There's a generous (= kinder than deserved) review of the book in today's newspaper.今天的报纸刊登了一篇书评，对该书赞赏有加。 Opposite ungenerous freely giving money, help, etc. to others generousThey were quite generous, donating to several charities. open-handedShe is incredibly open-handed and won't hesitate to donate whenever asked. free withOur professor is quite free with his time and will often extend office hours to accommodate extra students. philanthropicThere are fewer philanthropic billionaires than one would assume. charitableOxfam is a well-known charitable organization working to end global poverty. The public's response to the crisis appeal was generous and compassionate.公众对危难时刻的呼吁表现得慷慨大方、富有同情心。 His mother is one generous woman. John Herschel was an urbane, kindly and generous man. She's a really sweet person and she's generous to a fault.她是个非常善良的人，而且十分慷慨。 The charity will go under unless a generous donor can be found within the next few months.除非能在今后几个月中找到一位捐赠者慷慨解囊，否则这家慈善机构将会倒闭。 Generous & charitable altruistic altruistically anti-materialism anti-materialist beneficence eleemosynary generosity generously giver handout munificence munificent munificently open-handed open-handedly super-sweet unsparing unsparingly unstinted unstinting generousadjective (SIZE)C1 larger than usual or expected: （尤指超过一般预期）大的；大量的；丰富的 a generous slice of cake一大块蛋糕 a generous pay increase大幅度加薪 greater than the average size or amount bigThey live in a big house in the country. largeA large number of people were crowded into the room. greatThe party was a great success. enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs. Plenty and abundant abound abound in/with something abundance abundant abundantly fruitfulness galore generosity generously handsomely luxuriant overgenerosity plenitude plenteous plenteously plentiful richly unspent unstinted well off Related wordgenerously generous | American Dictionarygenerous adjective us/ˈdʒen·ə·rəs/ (of someone) willing to give help or support, esp. more than is usual or expected, or (of something) larger than usual or expected: a generous donor food in generous portions generouslyadverbus/ˈdʒen·ə·rə·sli/ Please give generously to those in need. Examples of generousgenerous Its generous pension programme contrasts with a virtual absence of state interest in health or care provision for elders. Typically, it would have been a year when the management team would have had generous bonus payouts. If we are generous in deciding what utterances involve transfer, the cue validity of the construction is markedly higher than the cue validity for verbs. Despite her generous marking out of a lineage of critics who have inspired her, however, this book is very much her own. The strong defiance incentives probably weakened somewhat from the mid 1980s, when the state grants became more generous. We also acknowledge the generous cooperation extended by the staff of the study hospitals throughout the study. 14. The book is generous with its data and ambitious in its aims but possibly over-stretched in its methodology. At the time of the study, an additional 10 per cent of the unemployed were covered by this less generous unemployment benefit system. What role did these generous programmes bear on citizens' political activity over time? The author wishes to thank two referees for very careful, constructive and generous comments on earlier versions of the paper. The book itself has been widely and favourably reviewed in various media, although some academic reviewers have been less generous. Secondly, even if an older person chooses the more generous ' service option ', this is unlikely to cover all their needs for help. Their statements might have been motivated by thankfulness towards very generous hosts. In the examples we use a more generous syntax (for instance, we allow the inclusion of natural numbers). The authors suggest that a reason for this gradient of shared caring is that ' generous public help stimulates informal care'. 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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