Adjective:
in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich;they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards
easy living
a prosperous family
his family is well-situated financially
well-to-do members of the community
该词源于斗鸡cockfight，原指给斗鸡fighting cock的脚上缚有距铁equipped with spurs at its heels，以后转喻“带着枪的”armed with a gun，“有很多武器的”well provided with weapons，到19世纪末开始用于今义“有钱的”well provided with money或“富裕的”well off，并一直沿用至今，因为人们认为有钱比有枪更安全。
另有一种说法，一个贫困者穿的鞋往往后跟磨损得很厉害，英语可用down at heel后跟磨掉的一语来形容，那么一个舍得在鞋子上花钱，把鞋跟钉得很好的有钱人，用well-heeled来表示就自然不过了。well好-heeled⇒adj.富有的近义词 rich富有的easy容易的wealthy富有的moneyed富有的well-off顺利的abundant丰富的affluent富裕的loaded有负载的well-to-do小康的prosperous繁荣的well-fixed有钱的in the money赚钱comfortable舒适的well-situated处境好的
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用作形容词It is just as well as to be happy as it is to be rich.快乐的生活跟富有的生活同样可贵。
In contrast, the lives of girls in well-to-do families were often well sheltered.相比之下，家境富有的女孩生活常常很有保障。 And the centerpiece of the program is now the TED Prize— an invention of Mr. Anderson’s that is designed to motivate the conference’s well-heeled audience to do something socially useful.
这个项目的核心作品就是现在的 TED颁奖典礼：这是安德森的一项发明，它是为了要鼓励与会有钱的观众能做些于社会有益的东西。 yeeyan