godsend

英 ['ɡɒdsend] 美 ['ɡɑːdsend]

• n. 天赐之物；意外获得的幸运

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. <非正式>天赐之物，天赐之福
2. 意外的好运
3. 及时雨
4. 天赐
5. 意外得来的所需之物
6. 来得适时而又意外获得的心爱物
7. 被冲到岸边的船的残骸

英英释义

Noun:

1. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money);

   "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The rent was due,so your cheque came as an absolute godsend!
   租金已到期, 你的支票来到真是喜从天降!
2. It's a godsend to meet you here.
   在这遇见你真是喜出外。

经典引文

• You are going to be a perfect godsend to us all.

  出自： E. F. Benson

• The money was a godsend, bailing me out.

  出自： W. Styron

• For the sake of information..Conrad's talkativeness was, in its way, a godsend.

  出自： A. S. Byatt

近反义词

【近义词】

• blessing 祝福
• boon 恩惠
• stroke of luck 意外的好运
• bonus 红利
• benefit 利益
• bunce <英口>意外的收获，赚来...
• gravy 肉汁
• gold rush 淘金热
• windfall 风吹落的果实...
• bonanza 富矿带
• boom 繁荣