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-).
双语例句
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.
