| 单词 | benefit |
| 释义 | benefit n. & v. --n 1. a favourable or helpful factor or circumstance; advantage, profit. 2. (often in pl.) payment made under insurance or social security (sickness benefit). 3. a public performance or game of which the proceeds go to a particular player or company or charitable cause. --v (benefited, benefiting; US benefitted, benefitting) 1. tr. do good to; bring advantage to. 2. intr. (often foll. by from, by) receive an advantage or gain. Phrases and idioms benefit of clergy 1. hist. exemption of the English tonsured clergy and nuns from the jurisdiction of the ordinary civil courts. 2. ecclesiastical sanction or approval (marriage without benefit of clergy). the benefit of the doubt a concession that a person is innocent, correct, etc., although doubt exists. benefit society a society for mutual insurance against illness or the effects of old age. Etymology: ME f. AF benfet, OF bienfet, f. L benefactum f. bene facere do well |
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