• n. 嫁妝；天資；亡夫遺產(chǎn)

來(lái)自PIE*do, 給予，詞源同data, donate. -ry，名詞后綴。用于指嫁妝。

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)).

1. His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.

他的家人希望新娘能帶來(lái)豐厚的嫁妝.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

2. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.

如果一個(gè)年輕女子沒(méi)有嫁妝，她就要做家政服務(wù)賺錢。

來(lái)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?zhàn)永铩?/dd>

來(lái)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(chéng)所尚,資從豈待周!

來(lái)自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學(xué)

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(hù).

來(lái)自中級(jí)百科部分