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

• If a man dies owing money to Jews, his wife may have her dower and pay nothing towards the debt from it.
  如果一个人死时还欠犹太人的钱，他的寡妇可以得到丈夫的遗产而不必付这笔债。
• The dower of the woman is very much.
  那个妇女的嫁妆很多。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• Application of sootblowers basing on LBR excited wave on boiler No.2 in Heze Dower plant
  LBR激波吹灰器在菏泽发电厂2号炉上的应用
• 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。
• She was drinking all day by the dower.
  她用从亡夫处得来的产业整天喝酒。
• 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。