1. 1nB2/ˈɪnkʌm/收入

    The money a person or group regularly receives, usually from work.

    a person or group一個人或團體 usually from work.通常從工作中 regularly receives,定期收到的 The money錢。

    示範例句 · Example

    Most of the family's income comes from Mum's job at the hospital.

    逐字這個家庭大部分的收入來自媽媽在醫院的工作。

    income 是「收入」——定期進到你口袋的錢,通常來自工作、生意或投資。可以想成 in(進來)+ come(來):錢「進來」就是 income。它跟 salary(固定薪水)不同,income 範圍更廣,包含薪水、獎金、利息等所有進帳;跟 expense(支出,錢出去)相對。

    常見搭配

    • a source of income

      收入來源

      a thing that brings in money

      Renting out the room is a useful source of income.

    • monthly income

      月收入

      the money received each month

      Their monthly income covers all the bills.

    • low/high income

      低/高收入

      a small or large amount of money received

      The program helps low-income families.

    意思相近

    earningsrevenuepay

core核心畫面

Money that comes IN to you on a regular basis — the inward flow you live on, the opposite direction of what you spend.

可以想成「進來的錢」:in(進來)+ come(來),合起來就是固定流向你口袋的那股金流。跟「支出」剛好相反方向——一個往外、一個往內,income 就是源源流進來、讓你生活有得依靠的那一邊。

複數 incomes

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

incomenoun/ˈɪnˌkʌm/

  • 1

    Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

    • The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.
    • In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
  • 2

    businesscommerceMoney coming in to a fund, account, or policy.

  • 3

    obsoleteA coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

    • more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
    • Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,
  • 4

    archaicdialectalA newcomer or arrival; an incomer.

  • 5

    obsoleteAn entrance-fee.

  • 6

    archaicA coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

    • I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.
  • 7

    dialectalA disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.

  • 8

    That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

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