affluent英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Someone who is wealthy.

— The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

— It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]

形容词 adj.

Abundant; copious; plenteous.

— The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare.
Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth. broadly

— They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.
Tributary. dated
Flowing to; flowing abundantly. obsolete

— affluent blood

词形变化

affluents plural more affluent comparative most affluent superlative

词汇关系

反义词

indigent

衍生词

affluence affluential affluently affluentness bioaffluent emerging affluent mass affluent nonaffluent subaffluent superaffluent unaffluent

词源

词源 1

Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.

词源 2

Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.