His benevolence made it possible for many poor children to attend college. 他的善心使得许多穷孩子上大学成为可能。
He is a man with benevolence. 他是一个有善心的人。
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of man does most harm or good. 人类思考的最大的忧郁,也许是:大体上,人的慈善行为究竟有益抑或更为有害,是一则疑问。
benevolence
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disposition to do good
<noun.feeling>
an inclination to do kind or charitable acts
<noun.attribute>
an act intending or showing kindness and good will
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Benevolence \Be*nev"o*lence\, n. [OF. benevolence, L. benevolentia. See {Benevolent}.] 1. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. --Chalmers.
2. An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
3. A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.
Syn: {Benevolence}, {Beneficence}, {Munificence}.
Usage: Benevolence marks a disposition made up of a choice and desire for the happiness of others. Beneficence marks the working of this disposition in dispensing good on a somewhat broad scale. Munificence shows the same disposition, but acting on a still broader scale, in conferring gifts and favors. These are not necessarily confined to objects of immediate utility. One may show his munificence in presents of pictures or jewelry, but this would not be beneficence. Benevolence of heart; beneficence of life; munificence in the encouragement of letters.
Coleman exudes the right amount of white-bread benevolence as the do-good teacher, and there are distinctive portraits drawn by John C. Cooke and Dan Gerrity as his cynical cohorts in the teaching profession.
The courtly Texan let drop his customary mask of benevolence when he talked up the yen in the weeks ahead of the G7 meeting, much to the annoyance of the Japanese government.
It was OK, therefore, to show benevolence to those who were too far away to make demands on him in person.
Paradigm and paragon of Christian benevolence.
Initially six feet of baleful loom, in a rectangular don't-mess-with-me suit and improbably black hair and beetle-brows, he soon melts into a kind of blinking benevolence in his old stamping-ground.