boon
boon 英 [bu:n] 美 [bun]
n. 恩惠；福利；利益 adj. 愉快的；慷慨的
名词复数:boons
- Boon means something beneficial to a specific person, entity, or cause. "Getting called out of school on the day of the test was a boon for Sam, as he hadn't remembered to study."
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- n. 恩惠；福利；利益
- adj. 愉快的；慷慨的
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1. For the most part, these same forces have been a boon, so far, to Americans who have a good education and exceptional creative talents or analytic skills.
而对于那些受到良好教育，具有特殊的创新能力或分析技能的人们来说，同样的情况在很大程度上是一种恩惠。
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2. This great boon of freedom which he allowed me, none else would have dared to do;many even blamed him for it.
这是他给予我的莫大自由的恩惠，没有别人敢于去做，许多人为此还责怪过他。
- boon (adj.) in boon companion "convivial friend, close intimate" (1560s), the only real survival of Middle English boon "good" (early 14c.), from Old French bon (see bon), from Latin bonus "good" (see bonus). Probably influenced by boon (n.).
- boon (n.) late 12c., bone "a petition, a prayer," from Old Norse bon "a petition, prayer," from Proto-Germanic *boniz (source also of Old English ben "prayer, petition," bannan "to summon;" see ban (v.)). The sense gradually passed from "favor asked" to "thing asked for," to "a good thing received, a benefit enjoyed" (1767).
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