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发音：[bɪˈnɛfɪs(ə)nt]
例句：
- The word beneficent refers to someone or something that is kind, generous, and does good deeds to help others. It describes a person, organization, or action that has a positive impact and brings about beneficial effects.
- Many sponsors perceive themselves as beneficent, extending a helping hand to a child in a government shelter as a favor to a friend or neighbor, even if they have no intentions of providing ongoing support.
- Following the markup hearing, she has engaged with various Democratic members, lauding the unrestrained dominance of Big Tech and espousing the same viewpoints as these companies to argue their positive and beneficent nature as monopolies.
- The nonprofit organization, listed as a “beneficent association” on the county’s tax records since 1975, has saved an estimated $3.5 million in taxes over the past two decades until fiscal year 2021, as confirmed by county officials.
- American businessmen flocked to Cuba to reap the benefits of the beneficent business climate and the favor bestowed upon them by the Cuban government, which swiftly profited from business gains while neglecting the welfare of the Cuban people.
解释：
- Beneficent这一单词做形容词使用，其表示“doing or producing something good”这一含义，即“仁慈的/善行的/有益的”，与benevolent/charitable/philanthropic/generous这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The presence of a single UFO of extraterrestrial origin may evoke fear among humans, as Stephen Hawking believed, but it could also embody a beneficent nature.（正如斯蒂芬霍金所相信的那样，外星起源的单一不明飞行物的存在可能会引起人类的恐惧，但它也可能体现一种仁慈的本性。）
–Science - Mr. Bankman-Fried, aged 30, who transformed FTX into a $32 billion company, came to the rescue of struggling firms and earned a reputation as a beneficent figure always ready to offer a lifeline to colleagues.（30岁的班克曼-弗里德先生将FTX转变为一家价值320亿美元的公司，拯救了陷入困境的公司，并赢得了一个善于随时为同事提供生命线的美誉。）
–Business - IBM poured substantial amounts of money in subsequent years to champion Watson as a beneficent digital assistant, beneficial not only to offices and factories but also to hospitals and farms.（IBM在随后的几年中投入了大量资金，支持Watson作为一个有益的数字助理，不仅有利于办公室和工厂，也有利于医院和农场。）
–Business - In this emerging world, artificial intelligences have progressed to a stage where they can reproduce, predict the future, and manifest in various forms, ranging from beneficent rulers to malicious exterminators.（在这个新兴世界中，人工智能已经发展到可以繁殖、预测未来并以各种形式表现的阶段，从仁慈的统治者到恶意的灭绝者。）
–Technology - According to the “Argument for Virtuous Engineers,” it was a reasonable assumption that our creators exhibited beneficent characteristics since the capacity to construct advanced technologies necessitated long-term stability and rational purposefulness.（根据“有道德的工程师的论据”，我们的创造者表现出有益的特征是一个合理的假设，因为构建先进技术的能力需要长期的稳定性和理性的目的性。）
–Arts
