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

• Dower, John. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. 1986.
  《没有慈悲的战争：太平洋战争的种族和强权》1986。
• Conflict and memory are the themes that animate this new collection of essays by John Dower, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Embracing Defeat ( 1999), which looked at Japan after the second world war.
  冲突和回忆这两种主题为约翰·道尔这本新散文集赋予了生命。他另著有《拥抱战败》（1999），该书研究了二战后的日本，获得了普利策奖。
• She may remain in her husband's house for forty days after his death, and within this period her dower shall be assigned to her.
  她在丈夫死后可以继续呆在夫家四十天，并在此期间领回她丈夫的遗产。
• 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
• The dower of the woman is very much.
  那个妇女的嫁妆很多。
• 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。
• Catalytic Conversion of FCC Gasoline in A Dower Reactor
  催化裂化汽油的下行床催化转化
• 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。
• Try running those lights off the main dower supply.
  试着从主要的能源供应中获得动力以点亮那些灯。
• 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。