alms
alms 英 [ɑ:mz] 美 [ɑmz]
n. 捐献；救济物，施舍金
名词复数:almss
- Alms are money, food, or similar items given to the poor as a charitable act. The word isn't used much today, but in movies set in the 1800s or earlier, you'll likely see street beggars shouting, "Alms for the poor!"
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- n. 捐献；救济物，施舍金
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1. I should beg alms of them for my poor.
我就请他们捐几文给我的穷人们。
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2. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
你们要小心，不可将善事行在人的面前，故意叫他们看见。 若是这样，就不能得你们天父的赏赐了。
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3. Most of the poorest villagers seem to get alms of some sort. But so do many richer ones.
最潦倒的几个村民可以得到一些救助，但似乎一些有钱人也能领到。
- alms (n.) "charitable relief of the poor," especially as a religious duty, also "that which is given to relieve the poor or needy," Old English ælmesse "almsgiving, act of relieving the needy," from Proto-Germanic *alemosna (source also of Old Saxon alamosna, Old High German alamuosan, Old Norse ölmusa), an early borrowing of Vulgar Latin *alemosyna (source of Old Spanish almosna, Old French almosne, Italian limosina).
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