affluent
affluent 英 [ˈæfluənt] 美 [ˈæfluənt, əˈflu-]
adj. 富裕的；丰富的；流畅的 n. 支流；富人
名词复数:affluents
- You know you're driving through an affluent neighborhood when you see large houses, perfect landscaping, and expensive cars. Use affluent to describe wealthy people or areas.
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- adj. 富裕的；丰富的；流畅的
- n. 支流；富人
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1. But most people in the world are not affluent, and their food budgets are limited.
而事实是，世界上大多数人并不富裕，他们的食物消费还很拮据。
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2. That affluent nations have produced half of the world's environmental destruction while paying only 3% of its costs.
富裕的国家付出只有3 ％的成本，却为这个世界制造了一半以上的环境破坏。
- affluent (adj.) early-15c., "abounding in, copious" (of God's grace); mid-15c. "flowing to" (of liquids), both senses now obsolete, from Old French afluent (14c.) or directly from Latin affluentem (nominative affluens) "abounding, rich, copious," literally "flowing toward," present participle of affluere "flow toward," from assimilated form of ad "to" (see ad-) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent). The especial sense of "abounding in wealth or possessions" is from 1753.
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