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affluent

/af-loo-uhnt or, often, uh-floo-/US // ˈæf lu ənt or, often, əˈflu- //UK // (ˈæflʊənt) //

富裕的,富有的,富裕,富足的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich: an affluent person.
    • : abounding in anything; abundant.
    • : flowing freely: an affluent fountain.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tributary stream.
    • : an affluent person: a luxurious resort appealing to young affluents.

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Examples

  • There are some ways in which the modern Democratic Party have help businesses and the affluent, but the Republican Party has done more.

  • These mostly affluent kids have been through a painful six months.

  • That trend also seems to be true in San Diego County, where districts with reopening plans tend to be among the most affluent.

  • In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire ripped through the affluent beachside town of Malibu, California.

  • The more affluent communities have lobbyists who are ensuring that the infrastructure that they need doesn’t get built in their community.

  • Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.

  • The more affluent a society, the more educated, the more democratic, the more networked, and so on.

  • And the boomers—at least those in the more affluent classes—are about to get yet another windfall.

  • As a powerful mother, outspoken artist, and affluent businesswoman, Beyoncé is surely a feminist success story.

  • Victoria Adams was born to middle-class parents in the affluent county of Hertfordshire.

  • Lords not only ought to be gentlefolk, and be fed and waited upon and live in affluent idleness, but super-gentlefolk.

  • Its chief affluent is the Ltschine (flowing from the valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen).

  • They demonstrate that the nation in good seasons can feed itself in the most affluent degree.

  • Then again they would be as iron-hearted in their demands, as though we were free from sufferings, and in affluent circumstances.

  • Hatcher's Run, an affluent of Rowanty Creek, has a general (p. 491) southeast course.