Companies have embraced flexible production and contracting out. Trade unions have shrunk and migrated to the public sector. Arise in general affluence has gone hand-in-hand with an increase in the number of people who are homeless or using food banks.
公司接受了灵活的生产和外包方式,工会规模缩小,并转移到公共部门。随着无家可归或使用食物银行的人数的增加,总体富裕程度也随之提高。
——《经济学人》
基本释义
Affluence is the state of having a lot of money or a high standard of living.
n. 富裕;流入
单词affluence里的词根flu,来源于拉丁语fluere,表示“流动”,在英语里包含flu/flow的单词,也多跟“流动”相关,例如:
flow v. 流动,涌流
flume n. 水道
fluent adj. 流畅的,流利的
fluid n. 流体,液体
effluent n. 污水;流出物
confluence n.(河流的)汇流点
这个词根在韦小绿《Vocabulary Builder》Unit4中也有详细解读:
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