generous

adj. 慷慨的，大方的；宽宏大量的；有雅量的

中文词源

generous 大方的，慷慨的

来自词根gen, 生育，词源同generate. 原指出生高贵的，词义褒义化。

generous: generous: [16] Generous comes via Old French genereux from Latin generōsus, which originally meant ‘of noble birth’ (a sense which survived in English into the late 17th century – Richard Knolles, for instance, in his General history of the Turks 1603, wrote of ‘many knights of generous extraction’). It was a derivative of genus in the sense ‘birth, stock, race’, and harks back semantically to its ultimate source in the Indo-European base *gen- ‘produce’ (see GENERAL). Its semantic progression from ‘nobly born’ through ‘noble-minded, magnanimous’ to ‘liberal in giving’ took place largely in Latin.
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generous (adj.): 1580s, "of noble birth," from Middle French généreux (14c.), from Latin generosus "of noble birth," figuratively "magnanimous, generous," from genus (genitive generis) "race, stock" (see genus). Secondary senses of "unselfish" (1690s) and "plentiful" (1610s) in English were present in French and in Latin. Related: Generously; generousness.

1、字面含义为：of noble birth.2、一般高贵出身的人都是具有绅士风度的，而具有绅士风度的人一般都是很慷慨的、大方的。

1. Not everyone thinks that the government is being particularly generous.: 并非所有人都认为政府特别慷慨。

2. It's the wages that count. Not over-generous, but there you are.: 重要的是工钱，不要过于慷慨，但也没办法。

3. He's generous and, you know, very nice, very polite.: 他很大方而且，你知道，很友善，很有礼貌。

4. He was generous enough to congratulate his successor on his decision.: 他十分大度地祝贺他的继任者做出了决定。

5. Francis poured a generous measure of the whisky into a fresh glass.: 弗朗西斯往一个干净的玻璃杯里倒了很多威士忌。