1N-COUNT 慈善机构;慈善组织 A charity is an organization which raises money in order to help people who are ill, disabled, or very poor. 慈善机构;慈善组织
The National Trust is a registered charity.
全国托管协会是个已注册的慈善机构。
...an Aids charity.
艾滋病慈善组织
2N-UNCOUNT 慈善(事业) If you give money to charity, you give it to one or more charitable organizations. If you do something for charity, you do it in order to raise money for one or more charitable organizations. 慈善(事业)
He made substantial donations to charity.
他为慈善事业捐了很多钱。
Gooch will be raising money for charity.
古奇将进行慈善募捐。
...a charity event.
慈善活动
3N-UNCOUNT 赈济(金);施舍(物) People who live on charity live on money or goods which other people give them because they are poor. 赈济(金);施舍(物)
My mum was very proud. She wouldn't accept charity.
母亲自尊心很强,不会接受施舍。
Her husband is unemployed and the family depends on charity.
4N-UNCOUNT 仁慈;宽厚Charity is kindness and understanding towards other people. 仁慈;宽厚 [formal]
5PHRASE [VERB inflects]行善始于亲友 If you say charity begins at home, you mean that people should deal with the needs of people close to them before they think about helping others. 行善始于亲友
Quotations
The living need more charity than the deadGeorge ArnoldThe Jolly Old Pedagogue
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifiethBible: 1 Corinthians
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charityBible: 1 Corinthians
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God doesSimone WeilThe New York Notebook
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith; so that I could remove mountains; and have not charity, I am nothingBible: 1 Corinthians
Charity begins at home, but should not end thereThomas FullerGnomologia
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up... Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never failethBible: 1 Corinthians
Charity shall cover the multitude of sinsBible: 1 Peter
He gives the poor man twice as much good who gives quicklyPublilius Syrus