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单词 munificence
释义
munificence
noun[U]
formal
uk
/mjuːˈnɪf.ɪ.səns/us
/mjuːˈnɪf.ə.səns/
thequalityof being verygenerouswithmoney:
慷慨解囊
Ithankedthem fortheirmunificence.我感谢了他们的慷慨解囊。
Hisfellowguestsdid notsharehis munificence.其他客人并没有像他那样慷慨。
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munificent
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  • "Thank you foryourhospitality," he said,bowing. "I am unworthy of such munificence."
  • SirRichardappeareddelightedat his own munificence.
  • If themillionairewantstokeephis munificence somysterious, why's he doing it ontelevision?
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Generous & charitable
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  • altruistically
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  • anti-materialist
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  • generously
  • giver
  • handout
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  • open-handed
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(Definition ofmunificencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmunificence

munificence
The stoic retreat is simply an extension of that basic definition to each person gaining freedom through themunificenceof others.
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And what is this handout, thismunificencewe ask for?
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The reason for this exceptionalmunificencewas the incomparable prestige that came to their sponsor.
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Throughout the sultan's long reign, he and his bureaucracy exercised various forms ofmunificence, both traditional and innovative, to create a rich repertoire of acts of imperial giving.
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It is very difficult to acknowledge adequately all the princelymunificenceof the ruling chiefs in connection with the expedition.
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Until recent times the arts in this country were subsidised by privatemunificence, which very wealthy people could afford to do, and did.
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I understand the arrangements in the first instance are due to privatemunificence.
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That means treating people as individuals with legitimate expectations of quality, rather than as lucky beneficiaries of publicmunificence.
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The lottery will be judged by its impact upon the nation through themunificenceof its large sums of money.
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Those contributions are not made for reasons ofmunificence.
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The trouble was that thatmunificenceextended for just 12 months.
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We are grateful, too, for hismunificencein his gifts to museums.
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We are all supposed to gasp and thank him for hismunificence.
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The local acquiring authority, in theirmunificence, offered him £75 in all.
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I merely think that it was a little ungenerous of him to refer to thismunificenceas a "spavined nag".
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