bonanza

• n. 富矿带；带来好运之事；幸运

来自西班牙语。来自词根bon, 好，见bonus. 美国19世纪中期淘金热时的流行词。-anza, 同-ance.

bonanza

bonanza: [19] Bonanza entered the language via American English from Spanish, where bonanza means ‘prosperity’, or literally ‘good weather’. It came from an unrecorded general Romance *bonacia, a derivative of Latin bonus ‘good’. (Other English words acquired ultimately from bonus – a descendant of Old Latin duenos – include bonbon [19], bonus [18], boon [14] (as in ‘boon companion’), bounty [13] (from Latin bonitas ‘goodness’), and perhaps bonny [15].) It appears to have been formed on the analogy of Latin malacia, as if this meant ‘bad weather’, from malus ‘bad’, although it in fact originally meant ‘calm at sea’, from Greek malakós.
=> bonbon, bonny, bonus, boon, bounty

bonanza (n.)

1844, American English, from Spanish bonanza "a rich lode," originally "fair weather at sea, prosperity," from Vulgar Latin *bonacia, from Latin bonus "good" (see bene-).

1. The expected sales bonanza hadn't materialised.

期望中的旺销并没有发生。

来自柯林斯例句

2. a cash bonanza for investors

投资者的赚钱机会

来自《权威词典》

3. Bargain hunters enjoyed a real bonanza today.

到处买便宜货的人今天真是交了好运.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. A cash bonanza will be winging its way to the 600,000 members of the scheme.

该方案的60万成员很快将获得一次发财的机会。

来自柯林斯例句

5. South Africa's gold and mineral bonanza is beginning to tail off.

南非的丰富黄金矿藏量以及其它矿业资源正在日益枯竭.

来自辞典例句