bonanza

英 [b?'n?nz?] 美[b?'n?nz?]

TOEFL低頻詞暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?bonanzas;

bonanza 金礦，發(fā)財(cái)?shù)臋C(jī)遇

來(lái)自西班牙語(yǔ)。來(lái)自詞根bon, 好，見(jiàn)bonus. 美國(guó)19世紀(jì)中期淘金熱時(shí)的流行詞。-anza, 同-ance.

bonanza: bonanza: [19] Bonanza entered the language via American English from Spanish, where bonanza means ‘prosperity’, or literally ‘good weather’. It came from an unrecorded general Romance *bonacia, a derivative of Latin bonus ‘good’. (Other English words acquired ultimately from bonus – a descendant of Old Latin duenos – include bonbon [19], bonus [18], boon [14] (as in ‘boon companion’), bounty [13] (from Latin bonitas ‘goodness’), and perhaps bonny [15].) It appears to have been formed on the analogy of Latin malacia, as if this meant ‘bad weather’, from malus ‘bad’, although it in fact originally meant ‘calm at sea’, from Greek malakós.
=> bonbon, bonny, bonus, boon, bounty
bonanza (n.): 1844, American English, from Spanish bonanza "a rich lode," originally "fair weather at sea, prosperity," from Vulgar Latin *bonacia, from Latin bonus "good" (see bene-).

1. The expected sales bonanza hadn't materialised.: 期望中的旺銷(xiāo)并沒(méi)有發(fā)生。

3. Bargain hunters enjoyed a real bonanza today.: 到處買(mǎi)便宜貨的人今天真是交了好運(yùn).

4. A cash bonanza will be winging its way to the 600,000 members of the scheme.: 該方案的60萬(wàn)成員很快將獲得一次發(fā)財(cái)?shù)臋C(jī)會(huì)。

5. South Africa's gold and mineral bonanza is beginning to tail off.: 南非的豐富黃金礦藏量以及其它礦業(yè)資源正在日益枯竭.