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generously

/jen-er-uhs/US // ˈdʒɛn ər əs //UK // (ˈdʒɛnərəs, ˈdʒɛnrəs) //

慷慨地,慷慨解囊,大方地,慷慨激昂

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
    • : free from meanness or smallness of mind or character; magnanimous.
    • : large; abundant; ample: a generous portion of pie.
    • : rich or strong in flavor: a generous wine.
    • : fertile; prolific: generous soil.

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Examples

  • The people who give money to the museum have been very generous.

  • Author Burgess and illustrator Cochran show how generous a person he was, and how children played a central part in his life and work.

  • Fundamentally, we do want to be generous to our customers and make sports betting fun.

  • Spread the whipped cream in a generous layer all over the pie filling, making decorative, billowy swirls.

  • Bondo showed me his generous character early on, when he invited my wife and me on a trip to the South Pacific to enjoy the beauty and serenity of this remote part of the world with his wife, Laurie, and four other couples.

  • As Johnson generously observes, “If any dog had a right to mark its new territory, it was Churchill.”

  • At the below concert, he generously gave his microphone to an audience member in a wheelchair.

  • There are several other things in the Wiki vs. doctors article to quibble about, which the authors generously note.

  • If the grad goes on to fame and riches you can take credit for generously providing the book that made all of the difference.

  • Maybe the judges scored the Russian skater generously because they just wanted to be done with it all and get out of Sochi alive.

  • Then, inexplicably, he shifted to the other side that the old, the normal Tom presented generously to the new.

  • The Institution had a great membership in England, and was generously helped there in the matter of funds by the public.

  • Messrs. Thomas Nelson and Sons have generously co-operated in permitting the use of the best translation.

  • It's rather against my principles as a soldier, but just to make things a bit more fair—(generously) you shall have it.

  • Ten minutes later the two possessed but a single rose apiece—they had generously given all the rest away.