Wealth

(noun.) the quality of profuse abundance; 'she has a wealth of talent'.

(noun.) property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value.

(noun.) an abundance of material possessions and resources.

(noun.) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; 'great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence'.

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• To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His father was Sillerton Jackson's uncle, his mother a Pennilow of Boston; on each side there was wealth and position, and mutual suitability. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Before that time Spain had always been a poor country; it is a poor country to-day, almost its only wealth lies in its mines. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The self-deceptions of wealth, power, and prominence wear thin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He smiled, I must make on Miss Barkley the impression of a man of sufficient wealth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The socialist demand for a better distribution of wealth is of great consequence, but without a change in the very nature of labor society will not have achieved the happiness it expects. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I have health, wealth, and youth; but I feel the stings of the rod all the same. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Perhaps the Modern Period with its flexibility, sense of change, and desire for self-direction is a liberation due to the great surplus of wealth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Water power is as great a source of wealth as a coal bed or a gold mine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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