解释
- n. 遗产；遗赠
※ 提供单词"bequest"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
bequest 遗赠
前缀be-, 强调。quest, 词源同voice, 说。此处指临终遗嘱。
英文词源
- bequest (n.)
- c. 1300, "act of bequeathing," from be- + *cwis, *cwiss "saying" (related to quoth; from Proto-Germanic *kwessiz; see bequeath), with excrescent -t. Meaning "that which is bequeathed" is recorded from late 15c.
例句和用法
- 1. The bequest is con-servatively estimated at £30 million.
- 保守估计，这笔遗产有3,000万英镑。
- 2. He left a bequest to each of his grandchildren.
- 他给他的孙辈每人留下一笔遗产。
- 3. In his will he made a substantial bequest to his wife.
- 在遗嘱里他给妻子留下了一大笔遗产.
- 4. The library has received a generous bequest from a local businessman.
- 图书馆从当地一位商人那里得到了一大笔遗赠.
- 5. The picture was acquired by bequest in 1921.
- 这幅画是在1921年通过遗赠获得的.
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