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bequeathed

/bih-kweeth, -kweeth/US // bɪˈkwið, -ˈkwiθ //UK // (bɪˈkwiːð, -ˈkwiːθ) //

遗赠的,遗赠,获赠的,遗留

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to dispose of by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
    • : to hand down; pass on.
    • : Obsolete. to commit; entrust.

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Examples

  • The tiara previously belonged to the Queen Mother who bequeathed it to Princess Margaret.

  • But they also bequeathed to us a founding racism that we have found it almost impossible to jettison.

  • The Britain that she bequeathed to the world is a very different place.

  • In 1463, a gentleman of Bury St. Edmunds bequeathed to a friend “my silvir forke for grene gyngour” (candied ginger).

  • His fascism bequeathed an example that was disastrously emulated across Europe - and that led in turn to another terrible war.

  • The thing bequeathed must be described with sufficient clearness to identify it, nothing more is required.

  • He soon afterward gave fifty thousand a year for this work, and a million bequeathed for the cause at his death.

  • To whomsoever of my ancestors bequeathed me my power of detachment deep salaams!

  • As he was carried along he made his will, in which he bequeathed his detestation of popery to his friends and brethren.

  • But what was he to do, what means could he employ with a child that a worshiped wife had bequeathed to him in dying?