well-to-do的意思|well-to-do的解释-里氏词典

well-to-do

a. 富有的, 小康的, 富裕的

well-to-do

[ adj ]
in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
<adj.all>
they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standardseasy living
a prosperous family
his family is well-situated financially
well-to-do members of the community

The bill also would gradually take back from the well-to-do the tax saving realized from personal exemptions.
For many years, individual municipal bonds were available only to well-to-do investors who had $25,000 or more to shell out.
Even well-to-do officials with fancy apartments and high-ranking posts muttered "disastrous" when asked to evaluate their predicament.
A minister explains to his well-to-do flock that "the eye of the needle" was a place in old Jerusalem through which camels could undoubtedly pass.
By law, only well-to-do people, roughly 200,000 of the nation's 2.7 million residents, can legally be offered a card.
The Almeida Theatre has chosen to revive it now, probably rashly. At the start of The Bed before Yesterday widow Alma Millett - almost upper-middle, well-to-do, inexplicably lonely for a male companion - has Victor Keene to tea.
All Mrs. Rzadzka discovered through another relative was that her real name was Dina Szapiro, and that her family had been well-to-do.
About 1,000 mostly well-to-do investors and clients lost an estimated $150 million.
In a small, nondescript building on Komsomolsky Street in the center of Moscow, its dim neon sign beckons expatriates and well-to-do locals craving U.S.-style steak and potatoes followed by apple pie.
A study of adopted children showed that being raised by a well-to-do family or being born to privileged parents raised IQ scores.
Gov. Mario Cuomo, notebook and tape recorder in hage _ one elite, well-to-do and often associated with government officials, the other poor and struggling.
Mrs. Edgmon, a resident of Seminole about 75 miles southwest of here, bristled at any suggestion her brother lacked patriotism, saying he championed the downtrodden and jabbed the well-to-do.
While sprinklers in the well-to-do Marina district saturated expansive, manicured lawns, many residents of collapsed sections of the neighborhood were forced into a Red Cross shelter, where they quickly ran out of water.
As a side-effect, the well-to-do taxpayers who fall into this category are facing a 33 percent marginal tax rate on some of the extra dollars they earn above the 28 percent bracket.
It would reduce spending for Medicare by about $44 billion, curtail farm subsidies and shift a sizable portion of the federal tax burden onto the well-to-do.
The barricades, a response to muggings, purse snatchings and break-ins, have been adopted primarily by older, well-to-do neighborhoods bordered by less affluent areas or commercial strips.
Despite its down-scale reputation, a $1 million marketing study commissioned by Kalikow "shows the paper already appeals to a fairly well-to-do audience," Rubenstein said.
For SMU has been called "Southern Money University" or "Camp Wonderland," the place where well-to-do students go if they want to have fun and can't get into Vanderbilt or Duke.
One of them was a 1982 report that concluded that the government spends as much on health care for the poor as for the well-to-do, when tax breaks for health insurance and medical payments are factored in.
But sensing a campaign issue, Republicans said the Democratic proposal would mostly benefit well-to-do people and divert FHA resources away from poorer home buyers.
That feeling gradually changed as the war with Iran dragged on. His father's insurance business collapsed, although the well-to-do family maintained a comfortable life.
The well-to-do tenants are protesting conditions at their tony Fifth Avenue apartment building overlooking Central Park on the Upper East Side.
The well-to-do were less concerned than poorer people.
The top rate on the 4 million next most well-to-do - individuals earning more than about $80,000 - would drop from 33 percent to 31 percent.
All over the country, well-to-do people like Sinclaire are rushing to buy before the federal government begins Jan. 1 imposing a new tax on fancy cars and other luxury items.
At the time, there were no U.S. troops around the building, which occupies about half a city block in a well-to-do Paitilla neighborhood.
A $1 million marketing study commissioned by Kalikow "shows the paper already appeals to a fairly well-to-do audience," Rubenstein said.
In May 1985, three members of a well-to-do Winston-Salem, N.C., family were found slain.
Fewer than one-third of men's suits now sell at regular prices, and even well-to-do men are balking at buying the $800 to $1,000 designer suits on which they used to splurge.
That's because his city, about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix, is "probably 90% well-to-do retired people."

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