单词
emolument
英 [?'m?lj?m(?)nt; e-]
基本信息
- n. 薪水，报酬
GRE
词态变化
复数:?emoluments;
中文词源
emolument 酬金
e-, 向外。-mol, 磨，软，词源同mill,melt. 即磨出来应得的，原指付给磨米工或磨面工的劳动报酬。
英文词源
- emolument
- emolument: [15] Just as a salary was originally a ‘payment for salt’, so emolument appears to have been a particular kind of payment – in this case for flour – which later became generalized in meaning. Latin ēmolere meant ‘grind out’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and molere ‘grind’, a relative of English mill and meal ‘ground grain’), and hence the derivative ēmolumentum was used originally for ‘fee paid to a miller for grinding grain’. The metaphorical sense ‘gain’ was already present in classical Latin.
=> meal, mill - emolument (n.)
- mid-15c., from Old French émolument "advantage, gain, benefit; income, revenue" (13c.) and directly from Latin emolumentum "profit, gain, advantage, benefit," perhaps originally "payment to a miller for grinding corn," from emolere "grind out," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + molere "to grind" (see mallet).
双语例句
- 1. The emolument of this profession is not satisfactory.
- 此行业的报酬不令人满意。
来自辞典例句
- 2. He plied his new profession with emolument to himself, and infinite plague to the country.
- 他干这新行肥了自己, 对国家却是贻患无穷.
来自辞典例句
- 3. Typically, coating paper Toner low emolument and making quality and low.
- 通常, 涂层纸的墨粉定影强度较低且制卡质量低.
来自互联网
- 4. He was paid a modest emolument.
- 他获酬甚微.
来自互联网
- 5. Baby - linen - for babies then wore robes of state - afforded another possibility of toil and emolument.
- 而婴儿的服装 —— 当时的婴儿是穿袍服的 —— 也为她提供了依靠劳动获得收入的机会.
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