1
- (especially of a group or area) having a great deal of money; wealthy（尤指团体或地区）有钱的, 富裕的：
the affluent societies of the western world
西方世界的富裕社会
as plural noun the affluent only the affluent could afford to travel abroad.只有富人才有钱到国外去旅游。
2
- archaic (of water) flowing freely or in great quantity〈古〉（水）畅流, 滔滔流动。
- archaic a tributary stream〈古〉支流。
派生词
affluence
nounaffluently
adverb词源
late Middle English (in sense 2) ： via Old French from Latin affluent- 'flowing towards， flowing freely'， from the verb affluere, from ad- 'to'+fluere 'to flow'.