emolument: [15] Just as a salary was originally a ‘payment for salt’, so emolument appears to have been a particular kind of payment – in this case for flour – which later became generalized in meaning. Latin ēmolere meant ‘grind out’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and molere ‘grind’, a relative of English mill and meal ‘ground grain’), and hence the derivative ēmolumentum was used originally for ‘fee paid to a miller for grinding grain’. The metaphorical sense ‘gain’ was already present in classical Latin. => meal, mill
emolument (n.)
mid-15c., from Old French émolument "advantage, gain, benefit; income, revenue" (13c.) and directly from Latin emolumentum "profit, gain, advantage, benefit," perhaps originally "payment to a miller for grinding corn," from emolere "grind out," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + molere "to grind" (see mallet).
双语例句
1. The emolument of this profession is not satisfactory.
此行业的报酬不令人满意。
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2. He plied his new profession with emolument to himself, and infinite plague to the country.
他干这新行肥了自己, 对国家却是贻患无穷.
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3. Typically, coating paper Toner low emolument and making quality and low.
通常, 涂层纸的墨粉定影强度较低且制卡质量低.
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4. He was paid a modest emolument.
他获酬甚微.
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5. Baby - linen - for babies then wore robes of state - afforded another possibility of toil and emolument.