Bounty

(noun.) a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat.

(noun.) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely.

(noun.) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military.

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• Upon every barrel of herrings exported, there is, besides, a bounty of 2s:8d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It does not, however, like the American bounty, extend to the importation of undressed flax. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Between thirty and forty years ago, before the establishment of the buss-bounty, 16s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The sixth Bounty of this kind was that granted by 11th Geo. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Her seasonable bounty consoled many a poor family against the coming holiday, and supplied many a child with a new frock or bonnet for the occasion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The bounty upon corn alone has sometimes cost the public, in one year, more than ?300,000. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is in this set of men, accordingly, that I have observed the greatest zeal for the continuance or renewal of the bounty. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• What is called a bounty, is sometimes no more than a drawback, and, consequently, is not liable to the same objections as what is properly a bounty. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is altogether for the benefit of the producer, that bounties are granted upon the exportation of some of his productions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The bounties upon the exportation of British made sail-cloth, and British made gunpowder, may, perhaps, both be vindicated upon this principle. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• During these eleven years, the tonnage bounties paid amounted to ?155,463:11s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The defalcation of the revenue of customs occasioned by bounties and drawbacks, of which a great part are obtained fraudulently, is very great. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Bounties have even been given upon the exportation of some of them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Bounties upon production, it has been said too, have been found by experience more liable to frauds than those upon exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In other respects, their effects, it must be acknowledged, are the same as those of bounties upon exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If bounties are as improper as I have endeavoured to prove them to be, the sooner they cease, and the lower they are, so much the better. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The first bounties of this kind were those granted about the beginning of the present century, upon the importation of naval stores from America. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Bounties are sometimes called premiums, as drawbacks are sometimes called bounties. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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