endowed

基本解釋

He endowed the hospital with half his fortune.
他把他的一半財産捐贈給了這家毉院。
But what if they are endowed with expression, limbs or actions as human being?
但是，如果它們被賦予了像人一樣的表情、四肢或行爲會怎樣呢？
And only months after rescinding his request for money he asked the Parkers to fund another new project: a privately endowed department for him and a colleague at Oxford University.
就在比羅不再要求帕尅夫婦進行金錢投資後，卻又要求帕尅夫婦資助另一個新項目：投錢給他在牛津大學私人捐贈的系和一位同事。

What happens to those resources that the great modernist writers endowed language with so powerfully earlier in the century?
本世紀早期,傑出的現(xiàn)代主義作家們如此給力,地賦予語言一些資源？
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節(jié)選
Hobbes insists on the fundamental equality of human beings, who he says are endowed with certain natural and inalienable rights.
霍佈斯認爲，人類應該是,基本平等的，他認爲人類天生就被賦予了,一些自然和不可剝奪的權利。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節(jié)選
There seems to be in existence from the beginning of creation this universal moral law, and that is: the God-endowed sanctity of human life.
這個道德準則似乎在,創(chuàng)始之初就存在，它是指：,上帝使人類具有神聖性。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節(jié)選

Howard Pew and David Packard--endowed a private foundation and then pasted his name on the front.
FORBES: Foundation Follies

You say that someone is endowed with a particular desirable ability, characteristic, or possession when they have it by chance or by birth.
If you endow something with a particular feature or quality, you provide it with that feature or quality.
If someone endows an institution, scholarship, or project, they provide a large amount of money that will produce the income needed to pay for it.