詞彙從《韋氏字根詞典》Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder裡選取，以詞根串聯講解單詞。每日一詞，積少成多。後臺回復 小綠書 獲取電子版。
此書只有英文原版，中文釋義和例句翻譯為壹壹添加，便於理解。
詞根：BENE
BENE is Latin for 「well.」 A benefit is a good result or effect. Something beneficial produces good results or effects. The Latin root can be heard in other languages as well: 「Good!」 or 「Fine!」 in Spanish is 「Bueno!」; in French, it's 「Bon!」; and in Italian, just say 「Bene!」
benediction benefactor beneficiary benevolence
beneficiary /.benə'fɪʃəri/
n.受益者；受惠人；遺產繼承人A person or organization that benefits or is expected tobenefit from something, especially one that receives money or property when someone dies.
• Living in a trailer in near-poverty, she received word in the mail that her father had died,naming her as the sole beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
她住在拖車裡，生活幾近貧困。她收到郵件得知其父親已去世，而她是父親人壽保險的唯一受益人。
註：
near-poverty：經濟學中的接近貧困是指收入略高於貧困線的狀態，該收入由美國人口普查局定義為收入「在貧困線的100％到125％之間」。
Beneficiary is often used in connection with life insurance, but it shows up in many othercontexts as well. A college may be the beneficiary of a private donation. Your uncle's will maymake a church his sole beneficiary, in which case all his money and property will go to it whenhe dies. A 「third-party beneficiary」 of a contract is a person (often a child) who the peoplesigning the contract (which is usually an insurance policy or an employee-benefit plan) want tobenefit from it. In a more general way, a small business may be a beneficiary of changes to thetax code, or a restaurant may be the beneficiary when the one across the street closes downand its whole lunch crowd starts coming in.
Definition of Vocabulary.com
A beneficiary is simply the recipient of money or other benefits. So when your big sister finally moves away to college and you get to move into her bigger bedroom? You become a lucky beneficiary.
•The state was a prime beneficiary of the 「Green Revolution,」 a series of innovative farming techniques that transformed India from a country once plagued by famines into one that is self-sufficient in grains.
——Washington Post Dec 4, 2020
Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder
《韋氏字根詞典》一本你值得翻爛的書
一本能提高詞彙量的詞典。1,200個單詞和240個詞根，覆蓋2,300個詞彙。Vocabulary Builder是對希臘和拉丁詞根進行有效研究。本書包括每個詞根的討論以測驗學習成效。對於準備標準化考試的學生來說，這是一本很棒的參考書！
每一單元都以拉丁或希臘詞根串聯講解單詞，英語學習者，特別是法語、西班牙語、義大利語等專業學生能更加容易理解和學習英語。
書中包含30個單元，每個單元有8個詞根，每個詞根列舉4個單詞，加上每個unit最後8個words from mythology and history共40個單詞。學完詞根，每個單元還包含1個小測試，可以加深鞏固學習的成果。
這本詞典剛開始學習的時候，會覺得有些難度。不過堅持下來，效果會讓你驚喜！詞根詞綴的講法不同於國內常說的聯想記憶法，很靠譜，符合英語思維習慣。書中的釋義和例句也很經典，學習的時候一定要吃透例句。
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