bounty

n. 慷慨；丰富；奖励金；赠款

vt. 发给…奖金等；为…而发给赏金

vi. 以赏金等形式发放

中文词源

bounty 奖金

来自词根bon, 好，同bonus. -ty, 抽象名词后缀。

bounty: bounty: see beauty
bounty (n.): mid-13c., "generosity," from Old French bonte "goodness" (12c., Modern French bonté), from Latin bonitatem (nominative bonitas) "goodness," from bonus "good" (see bene-). Sense of "gift bestowed by a sovereign or the state" led to extended senses of "gratuity to a military recruit" (1702) and "reward for killing or taking a criminal or enemy" (1764).
I do ... promise, that there shall be paid ... the following several and respective premiums and Bounties for the prisoners and Scalps of the Enemy Indians that shall be taken or killed .... ["Papers of the Governor of Pennsylvania," 1764]

1. bonus => bon- "good" => boun- "good" + -ty => bounty.

1. A bounty of $50,000 was put on Dr. Alvarez's head.: 有人悬赏50,000美元买阿尔瓦雷斯博士的人头。

2. The charity is totally dependent on the Church's bounty.: 慈善业完全依靠全体基督徒的慷慨赠予.

5. The government has placed a bounty on the heads of many of its opponents.: 政府悬赏要许多反对者的脑袋.