affluent的意思|affluent的解释-里氏词典

affluent ['æfluәnt]

a. 丰富的, 富裕的

n. 支流, 富人

[医] 丰富的, 流入的

Affluent he may be, But he is by no means sure what to tip the doorman or the chambermaid.
尽管他可能是富裕的，但他一点不知道该付多少小费给看门人和清理卧室的女服务员。
Possessing or exhibiting great wealth; affluent.
富裕的占有或具有大量财富的；丰富的
He lives an affluent life.
他过着富裕的生活。

affluent

[ noun ]

an affluent person; a person who is financially well off

<noun.person>

the so-called emerging affluents

a branch that flows into the main stream

<noun.object>

[ adj ]

having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

<adj.all>

an affluent banker

a speculator flush with cash

not merely rich but loaded

moneyed aristocrats

wealthy corporations

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, a. [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis,
p. pr. See {Affluence}.]
1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. ``Affluent blood.''
--Harvey.

2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in
goods or riches.

Language . . . affluent in expression. --H. Reed.

Loaded and blest with all the affluent store,
Which human vows at smoking shrines implore.
--Prior.

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, n.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake;
a tributary stream.

But Loc, who grew up in a two-story house on the affluent west side of Los Angeles and went to University High School and Santa Monica College, had to travel by bus to the city's tough south side to get his reputation.
West Roxbury is a predominantly white neighborhood and one of the more affluent sections of Boston.
Collins, a Republican, represented the 3rd Congressional District in affluent north Dallas from 1968 until he lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1982.
The difference is that comparatively affluent Hungary, with 20 years experience in tinkering with socialism, is the communist country best prepared to take the free-market plunge.
An average of 2,000 East Germans are fleeing their country daily for their more affluent neighbor.
"It's a young, affluent market with lots of miles," said Mr. Edler.
The more affluent majority with access to jobs, owner-occupation, cars and the rest cannot cut themselves off from it.
It gives me an anchor." His house appears to be a modest white ranch from the outside, with only the extra large parking lot and guard booth at the driveway seeming out of character with the Aurora neighborhood, an affluent suburb south of Buffalo.
In affluent Naples, Barnett built a tiny branch in Moorings Park, a private life-care facility.
The information super-highway could be used to widen the gap between rich and poor, between the affluent urban areas and remote village communities.
Critics in the black community said the case received wide attention only because the victim, an investment banker, was white and affluent.
A 4-mile stretch was fouled in Newport Beach, an affluent community that boasts some of Southern California's most expensive beachfront property.
Davis lives with his wife, son and daughter in Greenwich, an affluent New York suburb.
Patients' advocates raise another ethical question: To what degree should the affluent be able to obtain experimental drugs that the poor can't afford?
In major cities all over the country, gentrification is transforming run-down areas into housing for the affluent, especially for young professionals who can't yet afford rising prices in established neighborhoods.
It is simply the inescapable fact that the more affluent a society becomes the more focused are rights to property and the protection of those rights.
Artists and affluent commuters live in the little town about 16 miles north of Bremen, with its quaint old stone homes and tree-lined streets.
Newly affluent farmers are also willing to pay heavy fines imposed for giving birth to two or more children.
Indeed, Mrs. Ross helps not only the indigent and elderly, but also middle-class and even affluent customers who have lost their jobs and fallen behind on mortgage and credit-card payments, as well as their utility bills.
Miss Taylor, who turns 57 Monday, received America's Hope Award during a tribute and roast Thursday at the Bob Hope Cultural Center in Palm Desert, an affluent desert resort 120 miles east of Los Angeles.
Gang violence has begun to move into more affluent, mainly white areas, illustrated by the Jan. 30 shooting of 27-year-old Karen Toshima, who was caught in gang crossfire.
"I am obsessed," she conceded during an interview at her home in an affluent Sandy Springs neighborhood in suburban Atlanta. "I'm obsessed with a legal system, a system designed to protect that destroys.
Kasparov's opponents ranged in age from 7 to 15, and came from such disadvantaged neighborhoods as the south Bronx, Harlem, East New York and Brownsville, as well as more affluent areas of Manhattan.
Langone's district includes the predominantly Italian-American neighborhoods of East Boston and affluent suburbs such as Lexington and Reading.
It's a symbol for the nation." Walden Pond is a 62-acre body of water in a 333-acre state-owned reservation on the edge of Concord, an affluent town of 12,500 about 20 miles northwest of Boston.
It suddenly dawns on Mr. Hammack that rebuilding the house in Los Gatos, an affluent community in Santa Clara County, may cost more than Aetna's policy will pay.
His very ordered and affluent life comes crumbling down after his mistress runs over a man in the South Bronx, flees the scene and leaves Sherman holding the bag.
The bomb, planted in a white Chevrolet Monza, exploded in an affluent northern neighborhood of Bogota as Gen.
But a withering of the state as the bulk of the population becomes affluent (by past standards) is not inevitable.
"I have dropped out for personal reasons," Nunn said in a statement released by his office Tuesday in response to questions about his membership in the Burning Tree Club, located in the affluent Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md.

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