largesse
largesse 英 [lɑː'(d)ʒes]
n. 慷慨的赠与；慷慨赠与物（等于largess）
名词复数:largesses
- Largesse is extreme generosity. If your neighbors bring you an expensive watch from Switzerland because you fed their cat while they were traveling, thank them for their largesse.
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- n. 慷慨的赠与；慷慨赠与物（等于largess）
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1. But now China is facing the consequences of its largesse.
但是中国现在要面对着这一慷慨大气的后果。
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2. Unfortunately, this gesture of largesse comes with a price tag much bigger than that $100 bowl.
不幸的是，这种慷慨大度的姿态却有比100美元一碗更高昂的价签。
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3. If you stick with forest squirrels or those that have been subsisting on your garden largesse, you know exactly what that beastie has been snacking on.
如果你关注那些森林松鼠，或者慷慨地提供给它们你的花园让他们觅食，你就能确切地知道这种动物一直以什么为食。
- largesse (n.) also largess, "willingness to give or spend freely; munificence," c. 1200, from Old French largesse, largece "a bounty, munificence," from Vulgar Latin *largitia "abundance" (source also of Spanish largueza, Italian larghezza), from Latin largus "abundant, large, liberal" (see large). In medieval theology, "the virtue whose opposite is avarice, and whose excess is prodigality" ["Middle English Dictionary"]. For Old French suffix -esse, compare fortress. Related: Largation.
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