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Beneficence is the quality of helping people, or the good that comes from that help. It is kindness in action — not only a warm feeling, but doing something that makes someone’s life better. You will hear it in careful, formal English: ethics, medicine, philosophy, and speeches. Doctors talk about “the principle of beneficence”: you should act so that the patient is helped, not only so that they are not harmed. In ordinary talk people almost never say this word; they say kindness, generosity, or doing good. Though actually, teachers sometimes keep it apart from benevolence: benevolence is wishing people well; beneficence is actually doing the good thing. In real use the two often overlap.
善行、行善（正式。醫療倫理常說「行善原則」。比 benevolence 更偏「實際去做」）
組成From Middle English beneficence, from Latin beneficentia — the habit or quality of doing good, from bene (“well, good”) and the “doing” family of facere.
同家族的字
- beneficentthe adjective; a beneficent person shows beneficence
- benefitsame Latin “do good” pieces
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
beneficencenoun/bəˈnɛf.ɪ.səns/
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The practice of doing good, such as acts of philanthropy, kind deeds; or other acts which benefit someone else.
- Trump also promises to attack the sources abroad that he blames for the country’s malaise: economic interdependence, transnational criminals, traditional allies he sees as free riders on America’s long-running global beneficence.
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Good or charitable character or behavior.
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ethicshuman-scienceslawA duty or obligation to act in the best interests of another, especially a patient or beneficiary.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。