windfall
美 [?w?n(d)?f?l]
英 [?w?n(d)?f??l] 
- n.意外之財(cái);意外獲得的東西;風(fēng)吹落的果子(尤指蘋果)
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)橫財(cái);外快;意外的收獲
詞形變化
復(fù)數(shù):windfalls 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 意外之財(cái);意外獲得的東西an amount of money that sb/sth wins or receives unexpectedly |
| The hospital got a sudden windfall of £300 000. 這家醫(yī)院獲得了一筆 30 萬(wàn)英鎊的意外款項(xiàng)。 |
| windfall profits 意外的利潤(rùn) |
| The government imposed a windfall tax(= a tax on profits to be paid once only, not every year) on some industries. 政府對(duì)某些行業(yè)征收暴利稅。 |
2. | 風(fēng)吹落的果子(尤指蘋果)a fruit, especially an apple, that the wind has blown down from a tree |
英漢解釋
na. | 2. 被風(fēng)吹落的果實(shí);被風(fēng)吹折的樹(shù)(枝);(森林中的)樹(shù)木倒折地區(qū) |
英英解釋
例句
George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.
影子財(cái)相喬治-奧斯本(GeorgeOsborne)拒絕取消他自己提出暴利稅方案,并要求銀行放棄稅損。
Convenience store chains, wary of anti-smoking sentiment, have been reluctant to refer publicly to the windfall nature of their sales boost.
對(duì)反煙情緒十分謹(jǐn)慎的便民連鎖店一直不愿意公開(kāi)提及它們銷售增長(zhǎng)的本質(zhì)是意外之財(cái)。
It might have led to a windfall financial gain, but, at the very least, it was an opportunity to make video games.
它最終或許會(huì)創(chuàng)造巨大的經(jīng)濟(jì)效益,但對(duì)我而言,重要的是我有了一個(gè)開(kāi)發(fā)電腦游戲的機(jī)會(huì)。
It would have been neither feasible nor wise for oil-rich nations to spend this windfall at home, so much of it was saved and sent abroad.
將這筆橫財(cái)用于國(guó)內(nèi)是既不可行也不明智的,因此許多的資金便貯存了下來(lái)并轉(zhuǎn)移到了國(guó)外。
It's less risky to invest your windfall in someone with a proven business record, or put the money in the bank.
把這筆意外之財(cái)交給銀行或者投到一位可靠的生意人身上,風(fēng)險(xiǎn)就沒(méi)有那么高。
"In principle there was a political consensus during the campaign to charge a windfall profits tax on miners, " he said.
「原則上,在選戰(zhàn)期間,各候選人達(dá)成政治共識(shí),認(rèn)為應(yīng)對(duì)礦業(yè)主課徵暴利稅?!?c>他說(shuō)。
But it's easy to see the potential windfall Facebook stands to make.
但是顯而易見(jiàn)facebook堅(jiān)持創(chuàng)造潛在的意外收獲。
To have one of their countrymen who can play, and is young and can be here a long time, I don't know how that's not a windfall for us.
能長(zhǎng)期擁有一個(gè)會(huì)打籃球的年輕中國(guó)人在這里打球,我肯定這將會(huì)是一筆以外的收獲。
The purchase landed it a windfall profit and a leading position in fixed-income trading on both sides of the Atlantic.
此項(xiàng)收購(gòu)使巴克萊獲得意外的暴利,成為大西洋兩岸固定收入交易的佼佼者。
He told me that he often illusions themselves from an early age to encounter such a windfall uncle, however, has not encountered before.
他告訴我,他從小就經(jīng)常幻想自己能遇到這樣一個(gè)從天而降的叔叔,然而一直沒(méi)有遇到過(guò)。
It was a pretty good one, made of windfall limbs peeled smooth with a draw knife and thatched with pine straw.
這是很好的一個(gè),使蘋果樹(shù)的果子像用一把刀子削得那么光滑,并用松樹(shù)稻草蓋的。
With that windfall, Baekeland, with his wife and two children moved to Yonkers.
帶著這筆意外之財(cái),貝克蘭及其妻子、他們的兩個(gè)孩子移居到了揚(yáng)克斯。
That has helped make it a windfall for all involved.
這使該基金成為所有參與者的搖錢樹(shù)。
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?
36年前,當(dāng)道爾剛剛在化肥行業(yè)開(kāi)始起步時(shí),他能想得到自己居然能收獲5億美元嗎?
The run up in business school applications during the recession has created a windfall for essay writers.
隨著在金融危機(jī)期間商學(xué)院申請(qǐng)量的增加,論文寫手獲得了一大筆橫財(cái)。
Have both models with the injured workers have been violated and whether or not to receive windfall profits because of it?
采用兼得模式,受害勞動(dòng)者是否就因遭受侵害獲得意外收益呢?
It has been argued that the main benefit would be the billions of dollars that would be the immediate windfall from any sale.
他們還爭(zhēng)論賣酒所得的數(shù)十億利潤(rùn)馬上是一筆意外之財(cái)。
Are oil companies, I ask, more morally culpable than other industries that would not be subject to Obama's proposed [windfall profits] tax?
我問(wèn):是不是石油公司,比那些不受制于老奧的“暴利稅”的行業(yè),更需要得到道德的譴責(zé)?
You never know, it may increase the number of 'good' buyers and result in an unexpected windfall.
也許它能增加“善良”的買家并給你帶來(lái)意想不到的收獲。
adaptation " comes from a 1970s study of lottery winners, who a year after their windfall ended up no happier than nonwinners. "
這種「享樂(lè)適應(yīng)」的最經(jīng)典例子,來(lái)自1970年代對(duì)樂(lè)透中獎(jiǎng)人的研究,他們在贏得獎(jiǎng)金的一年后,并沒(méi)有比未中獎(jiǎng)的人快樂(lè)。
But exporting farmers received a windfall from devaluation, augmented when world prices for farm commodities promptly began to rise.
然而,依靠出口的農(nóng)場(chǎng)主卻獲得了現(xiàn)金貶值的意外橫財(cái),整日討論著何時(shí)世界農(nóng)產(chǎn)品價(jià)格會(huì)迅猛提升。
Finally, in terms of corporate earnings it is the developed nations that still yield the greatest windfall to US multinationals.
最后,在企業(yè)利潤(rùn)方面,對(duì)美國(guó)跨國(guó)公司貢獻(xiàn)最大的仍然是發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家。
Now you're asking yourself if all this came about just because Andy told Byron Hadley how to save the taxes on his windfall inheritance.
你會(huì)問(wèn),難道這一切全因?yàn)?/c>安迪告訴哈力那筆意外之財(cái)該如何節(jié)稅嗎?
As the cofounder, part-owner, and chief scientific officer of Ambergene, Cano stood to earn a hefty chunk of any windfall that might result.
作為Ambergene公司的創(chuàng)始人、部分所有者以及首席科學(xué)家,卡諾可以賺取一筆豐厚的意外之財(cái),這是必然的結(jié)果。
Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations will be hit with a windfall tax that will be used to "deal with the effects of climate change. "
與此同時(shí),化石燃料公司將受到用于“解決氣候變化影響”的意外收入稅的打擊。
Wearing a deep edge with the law as Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. the Buddha Hu You. evil away from disaster. longevity and a windfall.
佩帶與之緣深的普賢菩薩法像。獲菩薩護(hù)佑。災(zāi)邪遠(yuǎn)離。延年益壽并有意外收獲。
Interviewed in St Petersburg, Dr Perelman insisted that he was unworthy of all the attention, and was uninterested in his windfall.
在圣彼得堡接受采訪時(shí),佩雷爾曼堅(jiān)持說(shuō)他不值得所有這些注目,他對(duì)這筆橫財(cái)也沒(méi)有興趣。
He wishes a windfall might come his way.
他盼望能得到一筆意外的巨款。
Personal financial advisors that the windfall should be used to save for retirement, investment projects.
個(gè)人理財(cái)顧問(wèn)認(rèn)為,意外之財(cái)應(yīng)該用于為退休生活而儲(chǔ)蓄、投資的項(xiàng)目上。
If the snow arrival is a windfall word, that New Year's day is one of our budget sodality for pleasure.
如果說(shuō)雪的到來(lái)是一種意外收獲的話,那元旦聯(lián)誼會(huì)就是我們預(yù)算中的一件樂(lè)事。
So the market price of online storage, at least for email, has now fallen to zero (see "Webmail Windfall" ).
至少對(duì)郵箱服務(wù)而言,在線存儲(chǔ)的市場(chǎng)價(jià)格已經(jīng)下降為零(參見(jiàn)“電郵橫財(cái)”)。
We do not encourage originality by conferring windfall gains on the Disney Corporation, EMI, Citigroup, and the Picasso estate.
給迪士尼、百代、花旗集團(tuán)乃至畢加索的后人送去意外之財(cái),并不是在鼓勵(lì)原創(chuàng)。
Gold miners have much to be pleased about, with the soaring price of gold since GLD was created in 2004 giving them windfall profits.
黃金礦商有足夠的理由對(duì)此感到高興——自2004年創(chuàng)立GLD以來(lái),金價(jià)一路飆升,它們因此大發(fā)橫財(cái)。
Green wrote. 'Maybe you can find your dream job, or a way out of a career sinkhole, or a financial windfall.
或許,你可以找到的夢(mèng)想工作,找到一條擺脫職業(yè)困境的出路,或是在薪酬上有意外的收獲。
In 2005 I paid less than $10 per million and yet I did nothing to deserve or help pay for the windfall.
2005年,我只花了不到10美元,而我沒(méi)有為此做過(guò)什么。
This suggests that many voters believe they have a right to any windfall earned by their parents' bricks and mortar, whatever Mill said.
這暗示很多選民相信:不管米爾怎么說(shuō),他們都有權(quán)擁有父母房產(chǎn)為他們帶來(lái)的意外之財(cái)。
Since the producers tend to save a large part of their windfall, the effect is to restrict global demand.
因?yàn)?/c>生產(chǎn)者一般會(huì)留下意外之財(cái)的大部,導(dǎo)致全球需求受限。
Chile will then be able to maintain its social programmes by spending what it has saved from its copper windfall.
屆時(shí),智利將可依靠其積攢的銅礦橫財(cái)來(lái)維持社會(huì)項(xiàng)目的運(yùn)行。
There are two additional conditions that must be added to these new mortgages, to make them less of a windfall for borrowers.
另有兩項(xiàng)條件必須加入到那些新的抵押款項(xiàng)中,必須要讓借方減少暴利。
In particular, the departure of Mr. Kudrin is seen as a blow to Russia's ability to hold on to some of its oil and gas windfall.
尤其值得一提的是,庫(kù)德林的離職被視為是對(duì)俄羅斯保持部分油氣收入的能力的一個(gè)打擊。