emolument

英 [ɪ'mɒljʊm(ə)nt; e-]

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※ 提供单词"emolument"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

emolument 酬金

e-, 向外。-mol, 磨，软，词源同mill,melt. 即磨出来应得的，原指付给磨米工或磨面工的劳动报酬。

emolument: emolument: [15] Just as a salary was originally a ‘payment for salt’, so emolument appears to have been a particular kind of payment – in this case for flour – which later became generalized in meaning. Latin ēmolere meant ‘grind out’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and molere ‘grind’, a relative of English mill and meal ‘ground grain’), and hence the derivative ēmolumentum was used originally for ‘fee paid to a miller for grinding grain’. The metaphorical sense ‘gain’ was already present in classical Latin.
=> meal, mill
emolument (n.): mid-15c., from Old French émolument "advantage, gain, benefit; income, revenue" (13c.) and directly from Latin emolumentum "profit, gain, advantage, benefit," perhaps originally "payment to a miller for grinding corn," from emolere "grind out," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + molere "to grind" (see mallet).

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2. He plied his new profession with emolument to himself, and infinite plague to the country.: 他干这新行肥了自己, 对国家却是贻患无穷.

3. Typically, coating paper Toner low emolument and making quality and low.: 通常, 涂层纸的墨粉定影强度较低且制卡质量低.

5. Baby - linen - for babies then wore robes of state - afforded another possibility of toil and emolument.: 而婴儿的服装 —— 当时的婴儿是穿袍服的 —— 也为她提供了依靠劳动获得收入的机会.