| 词汇 | wherewithal |
| 释义 | wherewithal noun[ S ] uk /ˈweə.wɪ.ðɔːl/ us /ˈwer.wɪ.ðɑːl/ the wherewithal something such as money or a particular quality that is necessary in order to get or achieve something: 必要的资金 I'd like to buy a bigger house, but I don't have the wherewithal.我想买一所大一点的房子，可是没那么多钱。 [ + to infinitive ]Poor families lack the wherewithal to hire good lawyers.贫困的家庭请不起优秀的律师。 The new job has given her the financial wherewithal to support herself and her two children. Many life forms probably don't have the genetic wherewithal to adapt to a more acid ocean. There are not many countries that have the wherewithal to deal with cyber threats on such a scale. The key to financial success is having customers with the wherewithal to buy your goods. Cynics think that individual investors lack the intellectual wherewithal to understand a difficult concept like volatility. The team simply does not have the goal- scoring wherewithal to pile up the points. Amounts of money balance bank bounty buck capital circumstance coin fisc float holdback living wage money supply payout pool slush fund sub sum surplus trough your daily breadidiom wherewithal | American Dictionarywherewithal noun[ U ] us/ˈhweər·wɪðˌɔl, ˈweər-, -wɪθ-/ the money necessary for a particular purpose: Most people don’t have the wherewithal to hire the best lawyers. Examples of wherewithalwherewithal They would also have the wherewithal to purchase bottled water, to dig private wells, and to install private sewage systems. Autonomous organizations are important because they provide individuals with the organizational wherewithal to challenge public officials. And it shapes the economic environment within which people earn income and gain wealth-and thus the wherewithal to engage in these transactions. Nonetheless, more of the more recent retirees lack adequate retirement resources or the wherewithal to avoid poverty or near poverty. When we lack the clues or the wherewithal, identity remains cloaked. Others do not have the wherewithal, even if they have the motivation, to constitute themselves in these new subjectivities. If that insurance is not within the financial wherewithal of employees, then their interests quite simply are not being served. Unlike a homebound woman or a working man chained to a desk, he has the freedom and the wherewithal to plunge into excess and riot. Concerning classroom resources, sound compositions generally require little or no special wherewithal. The resources available within the society and the wherewithal of the parents would also have to be factored into such an assessment. Rather, these professionals have the wherewithal to accomplish the task, and these professionals are committed to use their resources for our benefit. He seems to have been, in effect, participating in middling culture without possessing the expected financial wherewithal. The density of data, the web of complementary evidence, including analogical inferences and, again, wherewithal, all determine whether the step into meaning is taken. Many have moved to the coast precisely because they have (or had) the wherewithal to become independent from their families. However, students may be restricted in the scope of their artistic expression if they are never given the wherewithal to go beyond their performing skills. See all examples of wherewithal 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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