revenue
英['revənjuː]
美['rɛvənu]
词态变化
复数: revenues;
助记提示
1. 出去的东西当然是支出 => expense, 那么返回来的东西理所当然的就是收入了 => revenue.
2. income <===> revenue, 构词成分及原理差不多，含义当然也差不多，很相近。
3. expense <===> revenue.
4. expense <===> income.
5. 由于re-的“back”含义，所以该词多指带有投资出去后然后所得到的回报性的收益。如 (公司、组织或政府的) 收入，国家的税收。
中文词源
revenue 财政收入，收益re-,向后，往回，-ven,来，词源同 venue,advent.比喻用法。
英文词源
- revenue (n.)
- early 15c., "income from property or possessions," from Middle French revenue, in Old French, "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.), from Latin revenire "return, come back," from re- "back" (see re-) + venire "come" (see venue). Meaning "public income" is first recorded 1680s; revenue sharing popularized from 1971. Revenuer "U.S. Department of Revenue agent," the bane of Appalachian moonshiners, first attested 1880.
双语例句
- 1. Tax frauds are dealt with by the Inland Revenue.
- 税务欺诈由国内税务局负责处理。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The Internal Revenue Service sought to disallow the payments.
- 国内收入署试图驳回这些缴纳款。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. a shortfall in tax revenue
- 税收收入不足
来自《权威词典》
- 4. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue control British national taxes.
- 国家税收委员管理英国全国的税收.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The reckoning up of revenue and expenditure shows a small surplus.
- 收支相抵,略有剩余.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》