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

• 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。
• Dry cow: will you pay a minimal ah, the huge windfalls bars around so many beautiful women.
  付乾说：你小子现在牛了啊，发大财了吧，身边这么多美女。
• I tend to leave the windfalls for the birds to pick at.
  我习惯于将被风吹落的水果留给鸟儿们啄食。
• Unexpected windfalls from property and stock markets which have been far more active than anyone expected raised revenues way beyond predictions.
  比任何人想象的都活跃得多地房地产和股票市场带来的意外之财使收入远远超过了预计。
• Investors with interests in finance, insurance and health saw the biggest windfalls, Oxfam said.
  涉足金融、保险和卫生领域的投资者得到了最多的收益，乐施会说。
• Finally, these are genuine windfalls.
  最后，这些是名副其实的意外收入。
• We don't often have such windfalls.
  发这么大一笔横财，咱们可不常见啊！
• These apples are windfalls, but they're good.
  这些苹果虽然被风吹落，但还是好的。
• 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。
• They added that the huge windfalls that [ Man Utd] can expect, will see both revenues and brand value continue to increase in the coming years.
  他们补充道曼联可以期待一大笔横财。在未来几年里，它的收入和品牌价值都会持续增长。