英语词汇philanthropy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	philanthropy
词源	philanthropy. Philanthropy clearly has its roots in the Greek philos, “love,” and anthropos, “mankind,” and means a love for mankind, especially as manifested in donations of money, property, or work to needy persons or socially useful purposes. It is first recorded by Bacon in 1607 and he refers to it as an an- cient Greek term.
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