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windfall
释义
- n.
- 意外之财；意外获得的东西；风吹落的果子（尤指苹果）
- 网络
- 横财；外快；意外的收获
展开详细释义
n.
1.意外收获
2.被风吹落的果实;被风吹折的树(枝);(森林中的)树木倒折地区
un.
1.横财,意外的收入
词形变化
复数：windfalls
常用短语 1 组
- windfall tax
- n. 暴利税；意外利润税
在例句中理解 31 句
It was a pretty good one, made of windfall limbs peeled smooth with a draw knife and thatched with pine straw.
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。
He told me that he often illusions themselves from an early age to encounter such a windfall uncle, however, has not encountered before.
他告诉我，他从小就经常幻想自己能遇到这样一个从天而降的叔叔，然而一直没有遇到过。
The purchase landed it a windfall profit and a leading position in fixed-income trading on both sides of the Atlantic.
此项收购使巴克莱获得意外的暴利，成为大西洋两岸固定收入交易的佼佼者。
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.
能长期拥有一个会打篮球的年轻中国人在这里打球，我肯定这将会是一笔以外的收获。
It's less risky to invest your windfall in someone with a proven business record, or put the money in the bank.
把这笔意外之财交给银行或者投到一位可靠的生意人身上，风险就没有那么高。
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.
将这笔横财用于国内是既不可行也不明智的，因此许多的资金便贮存了下来并转移到了国外。
"In principle there was a political consensus during the campaign to charge a windfall profits tax on miners, " he said.
「原则上，在选战期间，各候选人达成政治共识，认为应对矿业主课徵暴利税。」他说。
It might have led to a windfall financial gain, but, at the very least, it was an opportunity to make video games.
它最终或许会创造巨大的经济效益，但对我而言，重要的是我有了一个开发电脑游戏的机会。
But it's easy to see the potential windfall Facebook stands to make.
但是显而易见facebook坚持创造潜在的意外收获。
Convenience store chains, wary of anti-smoking sentiment, have been reluctant to refer publicly to the windfall nature of their sales boost.
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。
George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.
影子财相乔治-奥斯本（GeorgeOsborne）拒绝取消他自己提出暴利税方案，并要求银行放弃税损。
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。
That has helped make it a windfall for all involved.
这使该基金成为所有参与者的摇钱树。
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，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？
The run up in business school applications during the recession has created a windfall for essay writers.
随着在金融危机期间商学院申请量的增加，论文写手获得了一大笔横财。
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，受害劳动者是否就因遭受侵害获得意外收益呢？
It has been argued that the main benefit would be the billions of dollars that would be the immediate windfall from any sale.
他们还争论卖酒所得的数十亿利润马上是一笔意外之财。
Are oil companies, I ask, more morally culpable than other industries that would not be subject to Obama's proposed [windfall profits] tax?
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？
You never know, it may increase the number of 'good' buyers and result in an unexpected windfall.
也许它能增加“善良”的买家并给你带来意想不到的收获。
adaptation " comes from a 1970s study of lottery winners, who a year after their windfall ended up no happier than nonwinners. "
这种「享乐适应」的最经典例子，来自1970年代对乐透中奖人的研究，他们在赢得奖金的一年后，并没有比未中奖的人快乐。
But exporting farmers received a windfall from devaluation, augmented when world prices for farm commodities promptly began to rise.
然而，依靠出口的农场主却获得了现金贬值的意外横财，整日讨论着何时世界农产品价格会迅猛提升。
Finally, in terms of corporate earnings it is the developed nations that still yield the greatest windfall to US multinationals.
最后，在企业利润方面，对美国跨国公司贡献最大的仍然是发达国家。
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。
Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations will be hit with a windfall tax that will be used to "deal with the effects of climate change. "
与此同时，化石燃料公司将受到用于“解决气候变化影响”的意外收入税的打击。
Wearing a deep edge with the law as Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. the Buddha Hu You. evil away from disaster. longevity and a windfall.
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。
Interviewed in St Petersburg, Dr Perelman insisted that he was unworthy of all the attention, and was uninterested in his windfall.
在圣彼得堡接受采访时，佩雷尔曼坚持说他不值得所有这些注目，他对这笔横财也没有兴趣。
He wishes a windfall might come his way.
他盼望能得到一笔意外的巨款。
Personal financial advisors that the windfall should be used to save for retirement, investment projects.
个人理财顾问认为，意外之财应该用于为退休生活而储蓄、投资的项目上。
If the snow arrival is a windfall word, that New Year's day is one of our budget sodality for pleasure.
如果说雪的到来是一种意外收获的话，那元旦联谊会就是我们预算中的一件乐事。
So the market price of online storage, at least for email, has now fallen to zero (see "Webmail Windfall" ).
至少对邮箱服务而言，在线存储的市场价格已经下降为零（参见“电邮横财”）。
his £2 million windfall in the lottery
他彩票中奖得来的200万英镑意外之财