cui bono

短语

<拉>何人得益？为何目的？

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The principle that the ultimate initiator of an action is likely the person who stands to gain from the action.

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词源

From Cicero’s Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino, 84 & 86: Latin cui bonō fuisset (“to whom it would have benefited”), a so-called double dative construction.

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