Endow
[ɪn'daʊ;en-] or [ɪn'daʊ]
解释:
(verb.) furnish with an endowment; 'When she got married, she got dowered'.
(verb.) give qualities or abilities to.
校对:贾斯廷--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
(v. t.) To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
录入:库尔特
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Furnish with a dowry, settle a dower upon.[2]. Furnish with a fund, supply with means.[3]. Enrich, endue, indue, invest.
克洛伊校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Present, enrich, furnish, qualify, adorn, invest, supply, clothe, endue
ANT:Denude, spoliate, strip, disendow, deprive, divest
格雷戈里录入
解释:
v.t. to give a dowry or marriage-portion to: to settle a permanent provision on: to enrich with any gift or faculty: to present.—ns. Endow′er; Endow′ment act of endowing: that which is settled on any person or institution: a quality or faculty bestowed on any one.
整理:昆廷
例句:
- You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- A man can manufacture a plough and operate it, but no amount of ploughs will create a man and endow him with skill. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I am weak; but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- As it has a double task to perform, it must be endowed with double force and energy. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Edison’s record was not for visual inspection, but was endowed with the mechanical function of reproducing sound. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Two non-entities cannot exclude each other from their places; because they never possess any place, nor can be endowed with any quality. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But he was unluckily endowed with a good name and a large though encumbered estate, both of which went rather to injure than to advance him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- They helped to organize a formless resentment by endowing it with intelligence and will. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
贺拉斯校对