喜樂美語
  1. 1贍養費（付給前配偶的，不是子女扶養費）

    Alimony is money that a court orders one person to pay, regularly, to their former wife or husband after a marriage has ended. The old idea in the word is food and support — help to live — not a prize and not a punishment, though of course people argue about what is fair. Laws differ by country, and some places now prefer words like “ support” or “maintenance.” In everyday English, alimony is still the word many people reach for. It is not the same as child support, which is money meant for the children. Either former partner may be ordered to pay, depending on the case; it is not only “what a man pays a woman,” even if older stories talk that way.

From the word’s history

From Latin alimonia 'food, support', from alo 'to nourish'.

源自拉丁文 alimonia「食物、供養」，來自 alo「餵養」。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin alimōnia, “food, support, nourishment,” from alō, “to nourish,” + -mōnia, a suffix for a state or action. Known in English since the 17th century.

同家族的字

  • alimentsame Latin root alō, “to nourish”
  • alimentaryas in alimentary canal; same root, about feeding the body

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

alimonynoun/ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/

  • 1

    derogatorylawA court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.

    • In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life.
    • Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.
  • 2

    obsoleteNourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit.

    • […]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]
    • […] What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。