1.意外之财；意外获得的东西an amount of money that sb/sth wins or receives unexpectedly
The hospital got a sudden windfall of £300 000.这家医院获得了一笔 30 万英镑的意外款项。
windfall profits意外的利润
The government imposed a windfall tax(= a tax on profits to be paid once only, not every year) on some industries.政府对某些行业征收暴利税。
2.风吹落的果子（尤指苹果）a fruit, especially an apple, that the wind has blown down from a tree
George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.
影子财相乔治-奥斯本（GeorgeOsborne）拒绝取消他自己提出暴利税方案，并要求银行放弃税损。
Convenience store chains, wary of anti-smoking sentiment, have been reluctant to refer publicly to the windfall nature of their sales boost.
对反烟情绪十分谨慎的便民连锁店一直不愿意公开提及它们销售增长的本质是意外之财。
It might have led to a windfall financial gain, but, at the very least, it was an opportunity to make video games.
它最终或许会创造巨大的经济效益，但对我而言，重要的是我有了一个开发电脑游戏的机会。
It would have been neither feasible nor wise for oil-rich nations to spend this windfall at home, so much of it was saved and sent abroad.
将这笔横财用于国内是既不可行也不明智的，因此许多的资金便贮存了下来并转移到了国外。
It's less risky to invest your windfall in someone with a proven business record, or put the money in the bank.
把这笔意外之财交给银行或者投到一位可靠的生意人身上，风险就没有那么高。
"In principle there was a political consensus during the campaign to charge a windfall profits tax on miners, " he said.
「原则上，在选战期间，各候选人达成政治共识，认为应对矿业主课徵暴利税。」他说。
But it's easy to see the potential windfall Facebook stands to make.
但是显而易见facebook坚持创造潜在的意外收获。
To have one of their countrymen who can play, and is young and can be here a long time, I don't know how that's not a windfall for us.
能长期拥有一个会打篮球的年轻中国人在这里打球，我肯定这将会是一笔以外的收获。
The purchase landed it a windfall profit and a leading position in fixed-income trading on both sides of the Atlantic.
此项收购使巴克莱获得意外的暴利，成为大西洋两岸固定收入交易的佼佼者。
He told me that he often illusions themselves from an early age to encounter such a windfall uncle, however, has not encountered before.
他告诉我，他从小就经常幻想自己能遇到这样一个从天而降的叔叔，然而一直没有遇到过。
It was a pretty good one, made of windfall limbs peeled smooth with a draw knife and thatched with pine straw.
这是很好的一个，使苹果树的果子像用一把刀子削得那么光滑，并用松树稻草盖的。
With that windfall, Baekeland, with his wife and two children moved to Yonkers.
带着这笔意外之财，贝克兰及其妻子、他们的两个孩子移居到了扬克斯。
That has helped make it a windfall for all involved.
这使该基金成为所有参与者的摇钱树。
Coud Doyle ever have imagined when he started out in the fertilizer business 36 years ago that he would end up with a $500 million windfall?
36年前，当道尔刚刚在化肥行业开始起步时，他能想得到自己居然能收获5亿美元吗？
The run up in business school applications during the recession has created a windfall for essay writers.
随着在金融危机期间商学院申请量的增加，论文写手获得了一大笔横财。
Have both models with the injured workers have been violated and whether or not to receive windfall profits because of it?
采用兼得模式，受害劳动者是否就因遭受侵害获得意外收益呢？
It has been argued that the main benefit would be the billions of dollars that would be the immediate windfall from any sale.
他们还争论卖酒所得的数十亿利润马上是一笔意外之财。
Are oil companies, I ask, more morally culpable than other industries that would not be subject to Obama's proposed [windfall profits] tax?
我问：是不是石油公司，比那些不受制于老奥的“暴利税”的行业，更需要得到道德的谴责？
You never know, it may increase the number of 'good' buyers and result in an unexpected windfall.
也许它能增加“善良”的买家并给你带来意想不到的收获。
adaptation " comes from a 1970s study of lottery winners, who a year after their windfall ended up no happier than nonwinners. "
这种「享乐适应」的最经典例子，来自1970年代对乐透中奖人的研究，他们在赢得奖金的一年后，并没有比未中奖的人快乐。
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