Windfall是一个常用的英语单词,也可以缩写成WF,可以从以下方面来说明:
1. 定义:Windfall指的是意外的财富或收入,通常是指来自意外的成功或好运的收益。它可以是公司股票的繁荣、赌博的赢利、遗产或婚姻离婚的协议等。
例句:
- She won the lottery and received a windfall of millions of dollars. (她中了彩票,获得了数百万美元的意外财富。)
- The company's recent success has led to a windfall of profits. (公司最近的成功带来了丰厚的利润。)
2. 来源:Windfall一词源自中世纪的英国,原意为从树上掉下的成熟水果,而这些水果通常被认为是便宜的收益,因为它们不需要额外的劳动力。后来,这个词逐渐扩展到其他意外的收益方面。
例句:
- The farmers were happy to gather the windfall apples from the orchard. (农民们很高兴从果园收集到果树上掉落的成熟苹果。)
- The company saw a windfall of profits after the new product launch. (新产品上市后,公司获得了丰厚的利润。)
3. 形容词:Windfall可以作为形容词来描述意外的财富或收入。这个词通常和“unexpected”、“surprise”等词一起使用。
例句:
- She received a windfall bonus from her employer. (她从雇主那里获得了意外的奖金。)
- The stock market provided a windfall profit for the investor. (股市为投资者提供了意外的利润。)
4. 动词:Windfall也可以作为动词使用,意思是意外地得到大量的财富或利益。
例句:
- The company's acquisition has windfalled the investors. (公司的收购为投资者带来了意外的财富。)
- He windfalled a large sum of money from his distant relative's estate. (他从远房亲戚的遗产中获得了大量财富。)
以上是关于Windfall单词的四个方面的解释,下面提供5个中英例句:
1. After his invention became a hit, he received a windfall of profits. (他的发明变得非常流行后,他获得了丰厚的利润。)
2. The sudden arrival of a wealthy client brought a windfall to the company. (一位富有的客户突然到来,为公司带来了意外的财富。)
3. She invested in the stock market and received a windfall of profits. (她投资股市,获得了意外的利润。)
4. The inheritance from her grandfather was a windfall that changed her life. (祖父留下的遗产是改变她人生的意外财富。)
5. Getting the job offer was a windfall for him, as he had been unemployed for months. (得到这份工作是他的意外收获,因为他已经几个月没有工作了。)
windfall的中文翻译为“意外的收获”,读音为/wɪndfɔːl/。
例句:
1. The stock market crash led to a windfall of cheap stocks.
股市崩盘导致了便宜股票的意外收获。
2. The unexpected inheritance was a windfall for the struggling family.
意外继承对于那个挣扎的家庭来说是个意外的收获。
windfall通常被翻译为"被风吹落的果子、意外之财"的意思,在日常中也代表"经"的意思,在线读音是['windfɒ:l],windfall在英语中经常以名词形式出现,在《中小学生词典》中,共找到43个与windfall相关的例句。
Windfall的词典翻译
1.被风吹落的果子
例句:We saw this with the windfall billion dollar contracts made from the Iraq war. (我们看到的这数十亿美元暴利的合同 出自伊拉克战争)
2.意外之财
例句:With that windfall, Baekeland, with his wife and two children moved to Yonkers. (带着这笔意外之财,贝克兰及其妻子、他们的两个孩子移居到了扬克斯。)
3.经
例句:..a welcome windfall to a bird on a 1,000-mile journey from Africa to Europe. (..一个值得庆祝的意外之财 所以这些鸟飞越1000英里,从欧洲到非洲)
4.尤指苹果、经
例句:And so do caudillos: in Venezuela Hugo Chavez, having squandered a vast oil windfall, is trying to bully his way to an ugly victory in a legislative election later this month. (翻译:委内瑞拉的查韦斯挥霍了大笔石油横财,试图用无耻手段赢得本月末的立法选举。)
用法及短语
windfall一般作为名词使用,如在windfall benefit(暴利;意外收益)、windfall gain(【经济学】意外的(巨额)收益)、windfall incomes(意外之财)等常见短语中出现较多。
windfall benefit | 暴利;意外收益 |
windfall gain | 【经济学】意外的(巨额)收益 |
windfall incomes | 意外之财 |
windfall loss | [经] 意外损失 |
windfall profit | [经] 空头票据 |
windfall profits | 暴利 |
windfall tax | 意外收入税 |
windfall taxes | [网络] 石油暴利税 |
excess windfall profit | 超额暴利 |
例句
1. ..a welcome windfall to a bird on a 1,000-mile journey from Africa to Europe. (翻译:..一个值得庆祝的意外之财 所以这些鸟飞越1000英里,从欧洲到非洲)
2. And so do caudillos: in Venezuela Hugo Chavez, having squandered a vast oil windfall, is trying to bully his way to an ugly victory in a legislative election later this month. (翻译:委内瑞拉的查韦斯挥霍了大笔石油横财,试图用无耻手段赢得本月末的立法选举。)
3. Coud Doyle ever have imagined when he started out in the fertilizer business 36 years ago that he would end up with a $500 million windfall? (翻译:xx年前,当道尔刚刚在化肥行业开始起步时,他能想得到自己居然能收获5亿美元吗?)
4. Are oil companies, I ask, more morally culpable than other industries that would not be subject to Obama's proposed [windfall profits] tax? (翻译:我问:是不是石油公司,比那些不受制于老奥的“暴利税”的行业,更需要得到道德的谴责?)
5. So six months from now when my wife gets a call from a lawyer in the Cayman Islands telling her about her unexpected windfall, no one will be able to trace it back to this room. (翻译:所以在六个月之后 当我妻子接到由一个开曼群岛的律师 打来的电话 告诉她有一笔意料之外的横财落在她面前时)
6. Tom Norris funded Norris BioTech from the windfall he made on past bio-patents, right? (翻译:Tom Norris用他以前生物专利挣得的钱 来给Norris生物科技提供资金)
7. "In principle there was a political consensus during the campaign to charge a windfall profits tax on miners, " he said. (翻译:“原则上,在选战期间,各候选人达成政治共识,认为应对矿业主课征暴利税。”他说。)
8. Wearing a deep edge with the law as Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. the Buddha Hu You. evil away from disaster. longevity and a windfall. (翻译:佩带与之缘深的普贤菩萨法像。获菩萨护佑。灾邪远离。延年益寿并有意外收获。)
9. The state could charge heftily for acting as lender of last resort—or, less desirable, impose a windfall tax on bank profits or a “Tobin tax” on transactions. (翻译:国家可以对作为最后贷款人的债主重重地收税,或者,不合意地,对银行盈利征收重税,或在交易过程中课以“托宾税”。)
10. The windfall will eventually dwindle. (翻译:暴利税最终将下降。)
11. Convenience store chains, wary of anti-smoking sentiment, have been reluctant to refer publicly to the windfall nature of their sales boost. (翻译:对反烟情绪十分谨慎的便民连锁店一直不愿意公开提及它们销售增长的本质是意外之财。)
12. To help solve these problems, Humala has proposed levying a windfall tax on the mining sector. (翻译:为了协助解决这些问题,胡马拉提议对采矿业征收暴利税。)
13. This chimpanzee stumbles across a windfall of overripe plums. (翻译:这只黑猩猩偶然发现了 一堆熟透了的李子。)
14. It was a pretty good one, made of windfall limbs peeled smooth with a draw knife and thatched with pine straw. (翻译:这是很好的一个,使苹果树的果子像用一把刀子削得那么光滑,并用松树稻草盖的。)
15. As the cofounder, part-owner, and chief scientific officer of Ambergene, Cano stood to earn a hefty chunk of any windfall that might result. (翻译:作为Ambergene公司的创始人、部分所有者以及首席科学家,卡诺可以赚取一笔丰厚的意外之财,这是必然的结果。)
近义词&反义词
windfall作为名词的时候,其近义词以及反义词有s、windfalls等。
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