affluent

affluent: flow in large quantities; fluent: flow的现在分词(拉丁文); effluent: liquid waste, especially chemicals or sewage; flow out.

同近反义词: abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, opulent, meagre, scanty, moneyed, moneyless, penniless, prosperous, loaded, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

The book, "The Affluent Society (1958)", describes the United States after World War II. An affluent society, as the term was used ironically [反语地] by Galbraith, is rich in private resources but poor in public ones because of a misplaced priority on increasing production in the private sector [经济领域]. Galbraith argued that industrial production was being devoted to satisfying trivial consumer needs, in part to maintain employment, and that the United States should shift resources to improve schools, the infrastructure, recreational resources, and social services, providing a better quality of life instead of an ever greater quantity of consumer goods. His critique influenced efforts during the 1960s to improve the quality of public institutions and facilities. The term has lost its original ironic meaning and is now used simply to indicate widespread prosperity.

argue: state, giving clear reasons, that sth is true, should be done etc [LDOCE]

Affluent worker is the new type of affluent manual worker, said to be distinguished by new patterns of voting behavior and detachment from 'traditional' working-class loyalties and movement from 'traditional' working-class locations.

Affluent Diet is a generic term for a diet characterised by a marked increase in fat, especially saturated fat [饱和脂肪], cholesterol [胆固醇], and calories [卡路里], which is often consumed in wealthier nations.

六级/考研单词: affluent, unite, devote, trivial, consume, infrastructure, manual, detach, loyal, saturate, cholesterol, calorie, seldom

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