mite box

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A box, especially in a church, into which small charitable donations for the needy may be placed; (now commonly) any of a number of cardboard boxes distributed for individual donations.
    — Even if there had been time for mite boxes they were not such a good idea after all, she corrected herself.[…]It was not a neat and tidy mite box the way Beulah Ball's was; it was a dirty, torn, loose mite box, and so was Jerry's.

词形变化

mite boxes plural

词源

From (widow's) mite (“small donation”) + box.
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