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Prosperity is the time or state when people have money and the things they need for a good life — food, a home, work, a bit of safety. We talk about the prosperity of a family, a city, or a whole country. News and new-year wishes use it a lot. In this meaning it is not a countable thing: we say “prosperity,” not “a prosperity.” Though actually people sometimes stretch it toward “good times” in a wider sense, with peace and health sitting next to wealth. Still, if a country is said to be enjoying prosperity, the speaker mainly means people are not poor and the economy is strong.
繁榮、富足
組成From Middle English prosperite, from Old French, from Latin prosperitās. In English it is prosper + -ity (the state of prospering).
同家族的字
- prosperthe verb this noun is built from
- prosperousthe adjective from the same stem
原始詞典資料1 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。
prosperitynoun/pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/
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The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.
- Near-synonym: thriving
- “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.
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。