benefit是可数名词吗（你知道英语词根BENE的意思吗）
benefit是可数名词吗（你知道英语词根BENE的意思吗）beneficiary A person or organization that benefits or is expected to benefit from something especially one that receives money or property when someone dies. （受益者，受益机构） A benefactor may be involved in almost any field. One may endow a scholarship fund; another may give money to expand a library; still another may leave a generous sum to a hospital in her will. The famous benefactions of John D. R
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!”
（BENE是拉丁语，表示“好的”。Benefit（好处）是好的结果或效果。Something beneficial（有益的事物）产生良好的结果或效果。这个拉丁语词根也可以在其他语言中听到：“好的”在西班牙语中是“Bueno”，在法语中是“Bon”，在意大利语中就是“Bene”。）
benediction A prayer that asks for God’s blessing especially a prayer that concludes a worship service. （祝福，祈祷文 ）
• The moment the bishop had finished his benediction she squeezed quickly out of her row and darted out the cathedral’s side entrance. （主教刚做完祝福，她就快速挤出人群，冲出教堂的侧门。）
In benediction the bene root is joined by another Latin root dictio “speaking” (see DICT p. 272) so the word’s meaning becomes something like “well-wishing.” Perhaps the best-known benediction is the so-called Aaronic Benediction from the Bible which begins “May the Lord bless you and keep you.” An important section of the Catholic Mass was traditionally known as the Benedictus after its first word (meaning “blessed”). It was St. Benedict who organized the first Christian monasteries; many Christians have been baptized Benedict in his honor and 16 popes have taken it as their papal name.（在benediction一词中，词根bene与另一个拉丁词根dictio（“说”）相结合，因此这个词的意思是“祝福”。最有名的祝福也许是圣经中所称的亚伦祝福，其开头是“愿主赐福与你，保佑你”。天主教弥撒有一个重要的部分，传统上称Beneditus（颂歌），得名于它的第一个词(意思是“有福的”)。组建第一批基督教修道院的人正是St. Benedict（圣本笃，又译：圣本尼迪克特）；很多基督教徒被授以Benedict教名，以表敬意，共有16位教皇将它作为自己的教皇名。）
benefactor Someone who helps another person or group especially by giving money. （捐赠者，赞助者，施主。）
• An anonymous benefactor had given $15 million to establish an ecological institute at the university. （一位匿名捐赠者捐了1500万美元，在这所大学建造一个生态研究所。）
A benefactor may be involved in almost any field. One may endow a scholarship fund; another may give money to expand a library; still another may leave a generous sum to a hospital in her will. The famous benefactions of John D. Rockefeller included the gifts that established the University of Chicago the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller University. Many benefactors have reported that giving away their money turned out to be the most rewarding thing they ever did.（捐赠者可能涉及几乎所有领域。有人赠与奖学金；有人捐钱扩建图书馆；还有人立遗嘱给医院留下一大笔钱。约翰·D·洛克菲勒的著名捐赠包括建立芝加哥大学、洛克菲勒基金会和洛克菲勒大学。许多捐赠者表示，捐钱是他们所做过的最值得的事情。）
beneficiary A person or organization that benefits or is expected to benefit from something especially one that receives money or property when someone dies. （受益者，受益机构）
• 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. （她住在一辆拖车里，生活几近贫困。她在邮件中得知父亲去世了，指定她为人寿保险单的唯一受益人。）
Beneficiary is often used in connection with life insurance but it shows up in many other contexts as well. A college may be the beneficiary of a private donation. Your uncle’s will may make a church his sole beneficiary in which case all his money and property will go to it when he dies. A “third-party beneficiary” of a contract is a person (often a child) who the people signing the contract (which is usually an insurance policy or an employee-benefit plan) want to benefit from it. In a more general way a small business may be a beneficiary of changes to the tax code or a restaurant may be the beneficiary when the one across the street closes down and its whole lunch crowd starts coming in.（Beneficiary常与人寿保险一起使用，但也出现在很多其他的语境中。大学可以是私人捐赠的受益机构。你叔叔的遗嘱可能把教堂作为唯一的受益机构，在这种情况下，他死后所有的钱财都将归教堂所有。合同的“第三方受益人”是签署合同(通常是保险单或员工福利计划)的两方希望从中受益的人(通常是儿童)。广义而言，小企业可能是税法改革的受益者；当一家餐馆关张后，它原有的午餐顾客户群就会涌入街对面的另一家餐馆，那家餐馆就成为受益者。）
benevolence Kindness generosity. （善心，仁慈）
• In those financially desperate years the young couple was saved only by the benevolence of her elderly great-uncle. （在经济极端困难的那些年，这对年轻人仅靠她年迈的叔祖父的好心救助才得以度日。）
Part of benevolence comes from the Latin root meaning “wish.” The novels of Charles Dickens often include a benevolent figure who rescues the main characters at some point—Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist Abel Magwitch in David Copperfield Mr. Jarndyce in Bleak House Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. To be benevolent it helps to have money but it’s not necessary; kind assistance of a nonfinancial sort may turn out to be lifesaving benevolence as well.（Benevolence的一部分源自意思是“愿望”的拉丁语词根。查尔斯·狄更斯的小说中经常有这样的benevolent figure（好心人），会在某个时刻搭救小说的主人公—比如，《雾都孤儿》中的布朗洛先生、《大卫·科波菲尔》中的亚伯·马格韦契、《荒凉山庄》中的亚恩代斯先生、《圣诞颂歌》中的埃比尼泽·斯克鲁奇。想成为好心人，有钱财会有所裨益，但钱财也不一定是必须的。钱财之外的帮助有时候也可能成为救命的善举。）
BENE的思维导图
