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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Windfall \Wind"fall`\, n.
   1. Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a
      tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest
      prostrated by a violent wind, etc. ``They became a
      windfall upon the sudden.'' --Bacon.

   2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.

            He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. --B. Jonson.

资料来源 : WordNet®

windfall
     n 1: fruit that has fallen from the tree
     2: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
        opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has
        created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where
        boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line"
        [syn: {boom}, {bonanza}, {gold rush}, {gravy}, {godsend},
        {manna from heaven}, {bunce}]