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

• Gap theory: The process by which tropical forest regenerates spaces opened by windfalls.
  缺口原理：热带森林在被大风刮倒的地区再生的过程。
• Let's take our initiative instead of waiting and dreaming. Let's be courageous! Opportunities are not windfalls.
  我们不会等待，不会迷茫，让我们勇敢起来，因为我们相信：机会不会从天而降。
• Plan to use any windfalls you may receive this year ( a bonus or tax refund) to pay off debt and pursue financial goals.
  计划使用任何你可能在今年获得的“意外之财”（奖金或退税）来还债、达到财务目标。
• Opportunity of this movement replenish onr's stock is bad to hold, suggest to fluky psychology is not held to go to ground of wait for windfalls seeking opportunity of such replenish onr's stock in actual combat.
  这个动作进货机会不好把握，建议实战中不要抱有侥幸心理去守株待兔地找这样的进货机会。
• The performance revealed in a regulatory filing compares with two losing trading days in the previous quarter and suggests the authorities 'drive to revive markets after the crisis is yielding huge windfalls for some financial institutions.
  上述业绩披露在一份监管申报文件中。前一季度有两个亏损交易日。这些情况表明，政府部门在危机后重振市场的努力，正为某些金融机构带来巨大效益。
• After the storm she gathered a basketful of windfalls in the apple orchard.
  风暴过后，她从苹果园地上拣了满满一篮子苹果。
• 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。
• Finally, these are genuine windfalls.
  最后，这些是名副其实的意外收入。
• 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。
• 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。