参考词典中windfall的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 横财
常用短语
参考例句
- I had a windfall from the football pools.
我从足球比赛赌博中发了一笔横财。 - He applied the windfall to payment of his mortgage.
他把那笔意外的收入用於偿付抵押。
- I had a windfall from the football pools.
英英解释
2个名词解释
- fruit that has fallen from the tree
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
[同] godsend, gold rush, gravy, bonanza, boom, bunce, manna from heaven, windfall
[例]- the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
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