ad·van·tage /ədˈvæntɪʤ/
長處,好處,優點,優勢,利益,有利條件
Ad·van·tage n.
1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
Give me advantage of some brief discourse. --Shak.
The advantages of a close alliance. --Macaulay.
2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. --2 Cor. ii. 11.
3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.]
And with advantage means to pay thy love. --Shak.
Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] --Clarendon.
To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. “You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor.” --Sheridan.
To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.
Syn: -- Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial.
Usage: We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a “vantage ground” for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.
Ad·van·tage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging ] To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. --Fuller.
What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? --Luke ix. 25.
To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]
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advantage
n 1: the quality of having a superior or more favorable position;
"the experience gave him the advantage over me" [syn: vantage]
[ant: disadvantage]
2: first point scored after deuce
3: benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out
to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity"
[syn: reward] [ant: penalty]
v : give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich"
[ant: disadvantage]