Philanthropy

(noun.) voluntary promotion of human welfare.

整理:莫顿

• It is a poor form of social service that would exhaust the resources of science and philanthropy to care for the former without making any special provision fo r the latter. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The instinctive c raving for power, the will to dominate, of which Nietzsche was the lyricist, was in these men subdued to patience, industry, and philanthropy. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The praise of mankind was his swing; philanthropy was his insurance office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Not then from motives of pure philanthropy? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• If you would have had Lord Triton down here to woo her with his philanthropy, he might have carried her off before the year was over. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Gerty Farish was not a close enough reader of character to disentangle the mixed threads of which Lily's philanthropy was woven. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mr. Pickwick's countenance glowed with an expression of universal philanthropy, and Mr. Winkle and Mr. Snodgrass fell fast asleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was vulgar, and showed the littleness which some want of philanthropy towards our poor fellow creatures always must evince. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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