largesse
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How to pronounce largesse in British English:
英 [lɑːˈdʒes]
How to pronounce largesse in American English:
美 [ lɑːrˈdʒes]
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- Noun:
- a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously
- liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit
单词词源
- largesse (n.)
- also largess, "willingness to give or spend freely; munificence," c. 1200, from Old French largesse "a bounty, munificence," from Vulgar Latin *largitia "abundance," from Latin largus "abundant" (see large). In medieval theology, "the virtue whose opposite is avarice, and whose excess is prodigality" ["Middle English Dictionary"]. For Old French suffix -esse, compare fortress.
双语例句
- 1. Hence the unprecedented largesse of the bank bail-out .
- 2. Could political motives lie behind the largesse ?
- 3. So europe 's regulators have moderated their largesse .
- 4. Without such largesse , tepco looks doomed .
- 5. Fiscal largesse in lula 's final years contributed to economic overheating .