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单词 bounty
释义
bountyboun‧ty /ˈbaʊnti/ noun (plural bounties) Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbounty
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French bonté ‘goodness’, from Latin bonitas, from bonus; BONUS
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A bounty of $250,000 is being offered for the capture of the killer.
  • Mrs. Falzheim is known for her bounty to the poor.
  • the bounty of the harvest
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • In assembling complexity, the bounty of increasing returns is won by multiple tries over time-a process anyone would call growth.
  • It'sthis seasonal bounty to which the Eleonora's breeding cycle is geared, and the falcons harvest it in abundance.
  • President Davis assured the men he had plans that would soon regain for them the bounty of the green fields of Tennessee.
  • She shared that knowledge with her human children, but in return asked reverence and care in preserving her bounty.
  • The bounty of a journey inside Bio2 is mostly questions.
  • The taxpayer contended that the definition applied only to transactions which included an element of bounty.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a notorious cattle rustler with a bounty on his head
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Once regarded as little more than a fish-eating nuisance, harbor seals were sought by bounty hunters in Massachusetts until 1962.· It's the bounty hunters you've got to be wary of.· This is where the present bounty hunter story has become confused.· As an attractive young heiress Karen might quickly become the target of unscrupulous bounty hunters.
1[countable] an amount of money that is given to someone by the government as a reward for doing something, especially catching or killing a criminalbounty on a notorious cattle rustler with a bounty on his head2[uncountable] literary food or wealth that is provided in large amounts:  People came from all over the world to enjoy America’s bounty.3[uncountable] literary the quality of being generous
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