bounty
英 ['baʊntɪ]
美 ['baʊnti]
- n. 寛大さ；豊かさ；奨励；付与
- vt.賞金などを与える；報奨金を与える
- vi. 懸賞金などの形で。
語源
英語の語源
- bounty
- bounty: see beauty
- bounty (n.)
- mid-13c., "generosity," from Old French bonte "goodness" (12c., Modern French bonté), from Latin bonitatem (nominative bonitas) "goodness," from bonus "good" (see bene-). Sense of "gift bestowed by a sovereign or the state" led to extended senses of "gratuity to a military recruit" (1702) and "reward for killing or taking a criminal or enemy" (1764).
I do ... promise, that there shall be paid ... the following several and respective premiums and Bounties for the prisoners and Scalps of the Enemy Indians that shall be taken or killed .... ["Papers of the Governor of Pennsylvania," 1764]
例文
- 1. A bounty of$50,000 was put on Dr.Alvarez 's head.
- アルバレス博士の頭を買うために50,000ドルの懸賞金がかけられている。
- 2.The charity is totally dependent on the Church 's bounty .
- 慈善事業はすべてのキリスト教徒の寛大な贈り物に依存している。
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- 3.Beauty without bounty avails nought.
- 仁愛のない美しさは何の役にも立たない.
- 4.We received a bounty from the government.
- 政府から補助金を受け取った。
- 5.The government has placed a bounty on the heads of many of its opponents.
- 政府は多くの反対者の頭を懸賞する。
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