核心畫面

Picture a store of valuable things piled up over time — money, land, property — enough that having it changes what a person or a country can do. Wealth is that store. Lift the idea off money and keep only the abundance, and you get the second use: not riches, but plenty of something worth having.

可以想成:一批長年累積下來的值錢東西——錢、土地、房產——多到足以改變一個人或一個國家能做什麼。wealth 就是這更多收起可以想成:一批長年累積下來的值錢東西——錢、土地、房產——多到足以改變一個人或一個國家能做什麼。wealth 就是這一批。把「錢」這一層拿掉、只留下「量很多而且是好東西」,就得到第二個用法:不是財富,而是某樣珍貴東西的豐足。所以判斷要看後面接的是什麼。

From the picture

多到用不完的好東西

保留「多而珍貴」這一層,把錢換掉:資訊、經驗、細節多到像一筆財富。

abundance · noun · B2

Used as 'a wealth of something' to mean a large amount of something useful or good.

大量 / 豐富

Also in this word

wealth; riches · noun · B2

A large amount of money, property, or valuable things that a person or country has.

財富

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。

wealthnoun/wɛlθ/

  • 1

    economicssciencesRiches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.

    • Money talks, but true wealth whispers.
    • The existence of many nations and national characters is part of the cultural wealth of mankind, and there is no reason to seek to diminish their number.
  • 2

    A great amount; an abundance or plenty.

    • She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
    • There is a wealth of carved wood inside: from pulpit to pews, screens to lectern, and a large medieval chest made from a hollowed-out log of bog-oak with a massive lid.
  • 3

    obsoleteProsperity; well-being; happiness.

    • I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […]
    • Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。