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weal

/weel/US // wil //UK // (wiːl) //

疗养,疗效,疗养院,疗伤

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : well-being, prosperity, or happiness: the public weal; weal and woe.
    • : Obsolete. wealth or riches.
    • : Obsolete. the body politic; the state.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounwelfare

Examples

  • Liberals: Not high taxes per se, for their own sake, but enough taxes to serve the public weal.

  • Life shaped for eternal woe, eternal weal, by the deeds of a few earthly moments.

  • Poverty does not change its power of holding the members together through weal or woe.

  • Nothing could inspire him with greater hope for the public weal.

  • Neither ask, nor fret, nor strive:Where thy path is, thou shall go.He who made the streams of timeWafts thee down to weal or woe.

  • Our life, our morals, are affecting our children for weal or woe, whether we realise or shirk the fact.