dower

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美

n.  嫁妆，天赋，从亡夫处得来的用以维持生活的财产
v.  给以用以维持生活的财产，给以嫁妆

现在分词：dowering　过去式：dowered　第三人称单数：dowers　过去分词：dowered　

BNC.36670 / COCA.39063

英英释义

noun

• a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
  Synonym:dowrydoweryportion

verb

• furnish with an endowment
  1. When she got married, she got dowered
  Synonym:endow

双语例句

• A Commentary On Ghost Revenge In Hamlet And Dower's Grudge
  论《哈姆莱特》与《窦娥冤》中的复仇鬼魂
• To keep the dower stations going they need either coal or oil.
  为了使发电站继续运转，他们需要煤或石油。
• President George W. Bush should have seen that Japan provided no model for occupying Mesopotamia, Mr Dower wrote in a strikingly prescient 2002 New York Times op-ed, reproduced here.
  他在2002年《纽约时报》的社论专栏里极有先见之明地写道：乔治·W·布什总统应该认识到，日本不能为攻占美索不达米亚提供模式。
• Prof Dower says such moments in history crack open a space.
  道尔说，像这样的历史时刻能够打开一种新局面。
• The dower of the woman is very much.
  那个妇女的嫁妆很多。
• Mr Dower discusses his surprise at hearing his own work cited after 9/ 11, when American officials evoked the post-war occupation of Japan as a model for post-invasion Iraq.
  在9.11事件之后，美国官员援引了道尔的作品，要求以战后占领日本的模式在入侵伊拉克之后占领该国。道尔表示他听到这一消息以后有些错愕。
• In order to calm the situation, the MIT administration and Professors Dower and Shigeru have conceded some of these demands, while insisting on their own integrity.
  为了使局势平静下来，麻省理工学院管理教授和下行田茂有一些让步的这些要求，同时坚持自己的诚信。
• Except this, we found that the average results of structure under three earthquake waves are dower with the results of spectrum analysis.
  在对结构进行弹性动力时程分析时，结构在人工波作用下的反应要大于实际波，且三条地震波作用下的平均值与谱分析结论相吻合。
• For a solution, Mr Dower looks to the 20th-century views of E.H. Norman, a Japan expert and Marxist historian.
  为了寻求解决方案，道尔研究了日本专家、马克思主义史学家E.H.诺曼在20世纪提出的观点。
• The statutes provide dower for a wife who has the misfortune to survive her husband, and thus lose his support and protection.
  制定法规定妻子不幸失去丈夫，会失去支持和保护，法律因此赋予妻子以寡妇资格。