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
verb
- furnish with an endowment
- When she got married, she got dowered
双语例句
- The dower of the woman is very much.
那个妇女的嫁妆很多。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Discrepancy in Tragic Spirit of Chinese and Western Tragedies Accomplished by the View of Fortune-Comparison between Hamlet and Douwo ′ s Wrong A Commentary On Ghost Revenge In Hamlet And Dower's Grudge
命运观成就中西悲剧精神差异&《哈姆雷特》和《窦娥冤》之比较论《哈姆莱特》与《窦娥冤》中的复仇鬼魂 - 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。 - 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。