喜樂美語
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    Bounteous means very generous — giving freely, and giving a lot. Older English loved it for harvests, tables of food, and gifts from heaven: a bounteous host, a bounteous crop. Though actually, most people today say generous or bountiful instead; bounteous has a slightly old, hymn-and-poem feel. You may still meet it in Thanksgiving language, in stories set in the past, or when a writer wants a warm, sound. It is about plenty given, not about bouncing.

    慷慨的；豐厚的（文雅、偏舊；口語較常說 generous）

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組成From Middle English bountevous, from Old French bontios. On the surface it is bounty + -ous: full of bounty (goodness and giving).

同家族的字

  • bountythe generous plenty that bounteous describes
  • bountifulthe more common modern cousin, same idea

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。

bounteousadj/ˈbaʊntiəs/

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    Inclined to be generous.

    • Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent
    • Be bounteous at our Meale. Giue me thy hand, / Thou haſt bin rightly honeſt, ſo haſt thou […]
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    Liberal or abundant.

    • “Your Grace may be well assured,” said the Friar, “that, with the grace of Saint Dunstan, I shall find the way of multiplying your most bounteous gift.”
    • “I’d like to say it’s not just bounteous privilege, but it is. People like Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, they’re incredibly cut off from the world. […]
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    Large.

    • The house came with a bounteous yard.
    • He was a big man with a bounteous belly.

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。