windfall是什么意思？

windfall

英[ˈwɪndfɔ:l] 美[ˈwɪndˌfɔl]

• n. 意外之财，意外的收获，被风吹落的果子；

复数：windfalls;

例句

• Three hours later we are back in the kitchen hulling a heaping buggyload of windfall pecans. 三小时后我们回到了厨房，开始给那满满一车风吹自落的山核桃去核。
• Europe gave them away, which allowed polluters to make windfall profits. 欧洲无偿发放配额, 结果却让排污企业赚得盆满钵满.
• The water treatment was new, now , and Tom's low condition was a windfall to her. 时下,水疗法是个新玩意, 正巧汤姆精神也不怎么样,这下可得了她的劲.
• The windfall allowed me to buy a house. 这意外之财使我得以购置一幢房子.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  意外之财;横财
  A windfall is a sum of money that you receive unexpectedly or by luck, for example if you win a lottery.
• N-COUNT
  被风吹落的果子（尤指苹果）
  A windfall is a fruit, especially an apple, that has fallen from a tree.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. fruit that has fallen from the tree
  2. 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 lik an assembly line"

行业词典

• 金融： 意外收获；意外利润；