dower

英

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。
• 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。
• Domestic Comparison Competitive Dower of Equipment Manufacturing Industry of Western China
  西部地区装备制造业国内竞争力比较研究
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She was drinking all day by the dower.
  她用从亡夫处得来的产业整天喝酒。
• 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。
• 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。