Benefaction

(noun.) a contribution of money or assistance.

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• Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It did not call for this as a pious benefaction; it demanded it as a right. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This Atticus had an immense fortune, and he amused himself by huge architectural benefactions to various cities. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He made vast benefactions to the Buddhist teaching orders, and tried to stimulate them to a better study of their own literature. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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