windfalls

英 [ˈwɪndfɔːlz]

美 [ˈwɪndˌfɔlz]

n.  意外之财; 意外获得的东西; 风吹落的果子(尤指苹果)
windfall的复数

柯林斯词典

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

双语例句

• Plan to use any windfalls you may receive this year ( a bonus or tax refund) to pay off debt and pursue financial goals.
  计划使用任何你可能在今年获得的“意外之财”（奖金或退税）来还债、达到财务目标。
• Finally, these are genuine windfalls.
  最后，这些是名副其实的意外收入。
• But funds for many of the projects funded by the stimulus are funnelled to state officials many of whom ignore or do not know the details of US trade agreements and insist on us content for fear of losing federal windfalls.
  但是，刺激计划为许多项目所提供的资金，都拨给了州一级官员其中许多人忽视、或不清楚美国贸易协定的细节，他们坚持落实“美国含量”的要求，生怕失去联邦政府的拨款。
• That is more than the entire stock market value of rival Yahoo, and represents one of the biggest windfalls since the dotcom boom of the late-1990s first made the stock options of Silicon Valley employees the subject of global envy.
  这不仅超过了竞争对手雅虎（yahoo）的总市值，也是自上世纪90年代末互联网繁荣首次令硅谷员工的股票期权成为全球艳羡的对象以来，数额最大的意外财富之一。
• Iran, whose partnership Mr Obama has not sought, is waiting for whatever windfalls drop in its lap.
  至于奥巴马未寻求建立合作关系的伊朗，则正等着从中收获意外的好处。
• The performance revealed in a regulatory filing compares with two losing trading days in the previous quarter and suggests the authorities 'drive to revive markets after the crisis is yielding huge windfalls for some financial institutions.
  上述业绩披露在一份监管申报文件中。前一季度有两个亏损交易日。这些情况表明，政府部门在危机后重振市场的努力，正为某些金融机构带来巨大效益。
• In resource-rich region, resource endowments will result in a weak sense of innovation and reduce innovation investment, reap resource endowments "windfalls" and even the way people work effort, and thus fall into the plight of the "resource curse".
  在资源富集区，资源禀赋会导致创新意识薄弱和创新投入减少，坐享资源禀赋的意外之财甚至于降低了人们的工作努力程度，因而陷入了资源诅咒的困境。
• After the storm she gathered a basketful of windfalls in the apple orchard.
  风暴过后，她从苹果园地上拣了满满一篮子苹果。
• If the traders lever up their positions, as many are likely doing, even small profits can turn unto huge windfalls.
  如果他们再使用杠杆的话（相信很多人已经在这样做了），即使很小一点利润也会变成一笔横财。
• We don't often have such windfalls.
  发这么大一笔横财，咱们可不常见啊！