generous
高中,四级,六级,考研,托福,雅思,1
英['dʒen(ə)rəs]
|美['dʒɛnərəs]
日语:寛大
法语:généreux
德语:großzügig
韩语:관대한
俄语:generoso
牛津词典
adj.
- 慷慨的;大方的;慷慨给予的
giving or willing to give freely; given freely
- a generous benefactor
慷慨的捐助者 - to be generous with your time
不吝惜时间 - to be generous in giving help
乐于助人 - a generous gift/offer
丰厚的礼物;慷慨的提议 - It was generous of him to offer to pay for us both.
他主动为我们俩付钱,真是大方。
- 丰富的;充足的;大的
more than is necessary; large
- a generous helping of meat
一大份肉 - The car has a generous amount of space.
这辆汽车的空间很大。
- 宽厚的;宽宏大量的;仁慈的
kind in the way you treat people; willing to see what is good about sb/sth
- a generous mind
宽阔的胸怀 - He wrote a very generous assessment of my work.
他给我写的工作评价多有赞誉之词。
网络解释
中文词源
generous 大方的,慷慨的
来自词根gen, 生育,词源同generate. 原指出生高贵的,词义褒义化。
双语例句
- The generous amount of garlic adds flavour
蒜多了能提味。
- We will always remember his generous hospitality
我们将永远记得他的慷慨好客。
- He probably erred on the conservative rather than the generous side.
他可能过于保守,而不是过于宽宏大量。
- Not everyone thinks that the government is being particularly generous.
并非所有人都认为政府特别慷慨。
- Jefferson was generous to a fault
杰斐逊大方得过了头。
- Douglas was a complex man, thoughtful, gallant, and generous.
道格拉斯让人捉摸不透,他体贴周到,对女孩子颇为殷勤,而且慷慨大方。
- German banks are more generous in their lending
德国银行的借贷条件更为宽松。
- The gift is generous by any standards.
无论以哪个标准来衡量,这都是一份厚礼。
- He was always generous in sharing his enormous knowledge
他从不吝啬与人分享自己渊博的知识。
- He was generous enough to congratulate his successor on his decision.
他十分大度地祝贺他的继任者做出了决定。
- He should be able to keep his room tidy with the generous amount of storage space.
有那么宽绰的储物空间,他应该可以保持房间的整齐。
- She loved his brilliance and his generous heart
她深爱他的才华横溢和古道热肠。
- It took a generous helping of entrepreneurial confidence to persevere during this incident.
在这一事件中坚持下来是有了充足的创业信心的。
- He was a warm, generous and kind-hearted man.
他是个热情、大方、善良的人。
- He's generous and, you know, very nice, very polite
他很大方而且,你知道,很友善,很有礼貌。
- He has a large, generous face with deep lines.
他宽大的脸盘上布满了深深的皱纹。
- He poured himself another generous measure of malt.
他又为自己倒了满满一大杯麦芽威士忌。
- That's certainly very generous of you Tony.
托尼,你真是慷慨大方。
- The new deal was considered to be the most generous of its kind.
这一新交易被认为是同类交易中最大的一笔。
- Francis poured a generous measure of the whisky into a fresh glass
弗朗西斯往一个干净的玻璃杯里倒了很多威士忌。
- $ 31,000 is a generous remuneration.
31,000美元的薪水很不错了。
- He was a generous self-sacrificing man.
他是一个慷慨大方、勇于自我牺牲的人。
- Generous redundancy terms had triggered a stampede of staff wanting to leave.
优厚的裁员条件引发了职员争先恐后地要求辞职的现象。
- She had been careful to sweeten the deal with a rather generous cash payment.
她一直甚为审慎,想要通过支付大量现金促成这笔交易。
- His generous offer was a tremendous tonic for our morale.
他的慷慨相助对我们的士气是种极大的激励。
- Americans are a generous people: witness the increase in charitable giving, even during the recession.
美国人是个慷慨的民族:即使是在经济萧条时期,慈善捐赠也在不断增加,这便是明证。
- They have made generous response to the appeals for funds.
他们对募集资金的呼吁作出了慷慨的响应。
- He got a fine fame for being generous with his money to help others.
他因慷慨解囊而得到好名声。
- A generous miser is a contradiction in terms.
“慷慨的吝啬鬼”是一种语词矛盾的说法。
- Although he was poor, he was quite generous to his needy friends.
他虽穷,但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
语源
late 16th cent.: via Old French from Latin generosusnoble, magnanimous, from genus, gener-stock, race. The original sense was of noble birth, hence characteristic of noble birth, courageous, magnanimous, not mean (a sense already present in Latin)