windfall

windfall

美 [ˈwɪn(d)ˌfɔl]  英 [ˈwɪn(d)ˌfɔːl]

  • n.意外之财;意外获得的东西;风吹落的果子(尤指苹果)
  • 网络横财;外快;意外的收获

词形变化

复数:windfalls  

同义词

英汉双解

n.
1.
意外之财;意外获得的东西an amount of money that sb/sth wins or receives unexpectedly
The hospital got a sudden windfall of £300 000.
这家医院获得了一笔 30 万英镑的意外款项。
windfall profits
意外的利润
The government imposed a windfall tax(= a tax on profits to be paid once only, not every year) on some industries.
政府对某些行业征收暴利税。
2.
风吹落的果子(尤指苹果)a fruit, especially an apple, that the wind has blown down from a tree

英汉解释

na.
1.
横财,意外的收入
2.
被风吹落的果实;被风吹折的树(枝);(森林中的)树木倒折地区

英英解释

n.

例句

George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.

影子财相乔治-奥斯本GeorgeOsborne拒绝取消自己提出暴利方案要求银行放弃

Convenience store chains, wary of anti-smoking sentiment, have been reluctant to refer publicly to the windfall nature of their sales boost.

情绪十分谨慎便民连锁店一直愿意公开提及它们销售增长本质意外

It might have led to a windfall financial gain, but, at the very least, it was an opportunity to make video games.

最终或许会创造巨大经济效益而言重要了一个开发电脑游戏机会

It would have been neither feasible nor wise for oil-rich nations to spend this windfall at home, so much of it was saved and sent abroad.

横财用于国内不可明智因此许多资金便贮存了下来转移国外

It's less risky to invest your windfall in someone with a proven business record, or put the money in the bank.

意外交给银行或者一位可靠生意人身上风险没有那么

"In principle there was a political consensus during the campaign to charge a windfall profits tax on miners, " he said.

原则上期间候选人达成政治共识认为应对矿业主课暴利。」

But it's easy to see the potential windfall Facebook stands to make.

但是显而易见facebook坚持创造潜在意外收获

To have one of their countrymen who can play, and is young and can be here a long time, I don't know how that's not a windfall for us.

长期拥有一个篮球年轻中国人这里打球肯定以外收获

The purchase landed it a windfall profit and a leading position in fixed-income trading on both sides of the Atlantic.

收购使获得意外暴利成为大西洋两岸固定收入交易佼佼者

He told me that he often illusions themselves from an early age to encounter such a windfall uncle, however, has not encountered before.

告诉从小经常幻想自己遇到这样一个从天而降叔叔然而一直没有遇到

It was a pretty good one, made of windfall limbs peeled smooth with a draw knife and thatched with pine straw.

一个使苹果果子刀子那么光滑并用松树稻草

With that windfall, Baekeland, with his wife and two children moved to Yonkers.

带着意外贝克兰及其妻子他们两个孩子移居扬克斯

That has helped make it a windfall for all involved.

使基金成为所有参与者摇钱树

Coud Doyle ever have imagined when he started out in the fertilizer business 36 years ago that he would end up with a $500 million windfall?

36道尔刚刚化肥行业开始起步想得到自己居然收获5亿美元

The run up in business school applications during the recession has created a windfall for essay writers.

随着金融危机期间商学院申请增加论文写手获得大笔横财

Have both models with the injured workers have been violated and whether or not to receive windfall profits because of it?

采用模式受害劳动者是否遭受侵害获得意外收益呢?

It has been argued that the main benefit would be the billions of dollars that would be the immediate windfall from any sale.

他们争论卖酒所得数十亿利润马上意外

Are oil companies, I ask, more morally culpable than other industries that would not be subject to Obama's proposed [windfall profits] tax?

是不是石油公司那些受制老奥暴利行业需要得到道德谴责

You never know, it may increase the number of 'good' buyers and result in an unexpected windfall.

也许增加善良买家带来意想不到收获

adaptation " comes from a 1970s study of lottery winners, who a year after their windfall ended up no happier than nonwinners. "

这种享乐适应经典例子来自1970年代中奖研究他们赢得奖金没有中奖快乐

But exporting farmers received a windfall from devaluation, augmented when world prices for farm commodities promptly began to rise.

然而依靠出口农场主获得现金贬值意外横财整日讨论何时世界农产品价格迅猛提升

Finally, in terms of corporate earnings it is the developed nations that still yield the greatest windfall to US multinationals.

最后企业利润方面美国跨国公司贡献最大仍然发达国家

Now you're asking yourself if all this came about just because Andy told Byron Hadley how to save the taxes on his windfall inheritance.

难道一切全因为告诉哈力意外如何

As the cofounder, part-owner, and chief scientific officer of Ambergene, Cano stood to earn a hefty chunk of any windfall that might result.

作为Ambergene公司创始人部分所有者以及首席科学家卡诺可以赚取笔丰厚意外必然结果

Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations will be hit with a windfall tax that will be used to "deal with the effects of climate change. "

与此同时化石燃料公司受到用于解决气候变化影响意外收入打击

Wearing a deep edge with the law as Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. the Buddha Hu You. evil away from disaster. longevity and a windfall.

佩带普贤菩萨菩萨护佑远离延年益寿意外收获

Interviewed in St Petersburg, Dr Perelman insisted that he was unworthy of all the attention, and was uninterested in his windfall.

圣彼得堡接受采访佩雷尔曼坚持值得所有这些注目横财没有兴趣

He wishes a windfall might come his way.

盼望得到意外巨款

Personal financial advisors that the windfall should be used to save for retirement, investment projects.

个人理财顾问认为意外应该用于退休生活储蓄投资项目

If the snow arrival is a windfall word, that New Year's day is one of our budget sodality for pleasure.

如果到来一种意外收获的话元旦联谊会就是我们预算一件乐事

So the market price of online storage, at least for email, has now fallen to zero (see "Webmail Windfall" ).

至少邮箱服务而言在线存储市场价格已经下降参见横财”)。

We do not encourage originality by conferring windfall gains on the Disney Corporation, EMI, Citigroup, and the Picasso estate.

迪士尼花旗集团乃至毕加索后人意外并不是鼓励原创

Gold miners have much to be pleased about, with the soaring price of gold since GLD was created in 2004 giving them windfall profits.

黄金矿商足够理由感到高兴——2004年创立GLD以来金价一路飙升它们因此发横财

Green wrote. 'Maybe you can find your dream job, or a way out of a career sinkhole, or a financial windfall.

或许可以找到梦想工作找到摆脱职业困境出路或是薪酬意外收获

In 2005 I paid less than $10 per million and yet I did nothing to deserve or help pay for the windfall.

2005年,10美元没有为此什么

This suggests that many voters believe they have a right to any windfall earned by their parents' bricks and mortar, whatever Mill said.

暗示很多选民相信不管米尔怎么他们有权拥有父母房产他们带来意外

Since the producers tend to save a large part of their windfall, the effect is to restrict global demand.

因为生产者一般会留下意外导致全球需求受限

Chile will then be able to maintain its social programmes by spending what it has saved from its copper windfall.

届时智利依靠积攒铜矿横财维持社会项目运行

There are two additional conditions that must be added to these new mortgages, to make them less of a windfall for borrowers.

条件必须加入那些抵押款项必须借方减少暴利

In particular, the departure of Mr. Kudrin is seen as a blow to Russia's ability to hold on to some of its oil and gas windfall.

尤其值得库德林离职视为俄罗斯保持部分油气收入能力一个打击