[mass noun]income, especially when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature (尤指公司或組織數(shù)額龐大的)收入,收益 ■a state's annual income from which public expenses are met (國家)歲入,稅收 ■(revenues)items or amounts constituting such in come 各項收入,總收入 the government's tax revenues. 政府的稅收總額。 ■(常作 the revenue)the department of the civil service collecting such income 稅務(wù)局,稅務(wù)署。 參見 inland revenue
語源
late Middle English: from Old French revenu(e) 'returned', past participle (used as a noun) of revenir, from Latin revenire 'return', from re- 'back' + venire 'come'