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do-gooding

/doo-good-ing/US // ˈduˌgʊd ɪŋ //

做好事,做善事,做好事,做事

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : earnestly doing good; focusing on humanitarian causes in a naive and often ineffectual way.

Examples

  • When they thought about Lewis, what struck the players most was that he never acted like a do-gooder.

  • A bunch of books and a TV movie, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., followed.

  • First on the to-do list, the profiling exercises to help the Western masses understand the nature of the wretched beast.

  • If someone wants to dismiss this as do-goodism, fine, but it has real world effects.

  • That contestant also happens to be Cuba Gooding, Jr., Oscar-winner for Jerry Maguire and major hockey fan.

  • The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.

  • With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.

  • His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.

  • “But it certainly was a great to-do,” murmured Jessie, as she tried to see what the boys were doing.

  • Widder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.