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A prosperous person, family, business, or place is rich and successful — doing well, not struggling. A prosperous town has work and money moving around; a prosperous year is a good one for trade. It is only an adjective (a prosperous merchant, a prosperous life). In speech it can sound a little formal or old; people often say “doing well” or “well-off” instead, though newspapers still like it. It describes a state that lasts, not one lucky afternoon.
繁榮的、興旺的、富裕的
組成From Middle French prospereus, from Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (to cause to succeed). An older Latin phrase, pro spere, meant “according to hope / according to expectation,” from pro (for) + spes (hope).
同家族的字
- prosperthe verb
- prosperitythe noun
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。
prosperousadj/ˈpɹɑs.pə.ɹəs/
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Characterized by success.
- Trading Babe Ruth was far more prosperous for the Yankees than for the Red Sox.
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Well off; affluent.
- He was raised in a very prosperous household.
- He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.
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Favorable.
- He chose a prosperous lottery number that evening.
- So draw him home to those that mourn In vain; a favourable speed Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
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。