(noun.) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being.
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双语例句
I know not whether I am a true philanthropist; yet I am willing to aid you to the utmost of my power in a purpose so honest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Bates, Manager of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph for Robert Garrett; and Andrew Carnegie, the greatest ironmaster the world has ever known, as well as its greatest philanthropist. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
You would, perhaps, think me rude if I inquired in return whether you are a philanthropist? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
I am told he is an eminent philanthropist--which is decidedly against him, to begin with. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Adrian despised the narrow views of the politician, and Raymond held in supreme contempt the benevolent visions of the philanthropist. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Only the philanthropist's father and mother--Mr. and Mrs. Ablewhite. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
It left that to operate in darkness--then opinion rose in an empty fury, made an outlaw of one and a platitudinous philanthropist of the other. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
A pretty thing, indeed, to marry a philanthropist. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
So this old philanthropist used to make her equal run of her errands, execute her millinery, and read her to sleep with French novels, every night. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
I do suppose this was the most accomplished philanthropist (on a small independence) that England ever produced. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
I believe he is a sort of philanthropist, so Brooke is sure to take him up. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
This, too, when Mr. Quale, one of the first philanthropists of our time, has mentioned to me that he was really disposed to be interested in her! 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.