She says the media attention given to Campbell's testimony is a boon for the fight against conflict diamonds.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

And they had this feeling because there had just been this huge boon of discovery, of scientific advances that included Newtonian mechanics, it included Dalton's atomic theory of matter, also thermodynamics and classical electromagnetism.

他们会有这样的感觉,是因为他们刚，经历科学上的,大繁荣期，包括牛顿力学,道尔顿物质原子理论，热力学和电磁学,都取得了巨大进展。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Because as you'll soon find, when you're writing programs 0 that aren't just four lines long but are 40 or 400 which very quickly becomes easy, you'll find that even you the next morning have no idea what this code does for whatever reason, and just having some English comments is a huge boon to comprehension for yourself and others.

你们自己写程序时就会发现,用40行甚至400行代码来代替繁杂拥挤的4行代码0,将会让事情简化许多，你会发现，即使由于某些原因,你不知道如何写代码，先写些注释，于人于己，都是好事,易于理解嘛。

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A just-released International Crisis Group report says the fraudulent first round and continuing political uncertainty have been a boon for the Taliban insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Supan says oysters that stay fat through the summer could be an economic boon for local fisheries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

Experts say the newly arrived workers actually could be a boon to rural Haiti.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30