dowry
英['da?(?)r?]
美['da?ri]
- n. 嫁妝；天資；亡夫遺產
詞態變化
復數:?dowries;
助記提示
1、dow- + -ry / -ery.
中文詞源
dowry 嫁妝
來自PIE*do, 給予，詞源同data, donate. -ry，名詞后綴。用于指嫁妝。
英文詞源
- dowry
- dowry: [14] English acquired dowry via Anglo- Norman dowarie from Old French douaire (source of the originally synonymous but now little-used dower [14]). This in turn came from medieval Latin dōtārium, a derivative of Latin dōs ‘dowry’, which was related to dāre ‘give’ (source of English date, donate, etc). Its associated verb, dōtāre ‘endow’, is the ancestor of English endow.
=> date, donate, endow - dowry (n.)
- early 14c., from Anglo-French dowarie, Old French doaire (late 13c.) "dower, dowry, gift," from Medieval Latin dotarium, from Latin dotare "to endow, portion," from dos (genitive dotis) "marriage portion," from PIE *do-ti (cognates: Sanskrit dadati, Greek didonai, Old Church Slavonic dati, Lithuanian duoti, Armenian tam, all meaning "to give"), from root *do- "to give" (see date (n.1)).
雙語例句
- 1. His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.
- 他的家人希望新娘能帶來豐厚的嫁妝.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.
- 如果一個年輕女子沒有嫁妝，她就要做家政服務賺錢。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store.
- 她的嫁妝錢都投到了母親的鋪子里。
來自辭典例句
- 4. Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry.
- 貧儉誠所尚,資從豈待周!
來自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學
- 5. As a wife , the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum.
- 給已婚婦女備有一份嫁妝,或者稱為“decimum”,以使其受到保護.
來自中級百科部分