| 词组 | endow |
| 释义 | endow Endow is very often used with a preposition, and usually the preposition is with: • Endow such men with religious zeal —Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought, 1930 • I was endowed with rights to a White House car — John Kenneth Galbraith, Ambassador's Journal, 1969 There is also, of course, the common construction of endow used with by when the verb is used in the passive and the object names the agent: • The library, which was endowed by Andrew Carnegie, has approximately 36,000 volumes —American Guide Series: Louisiana, 1941 Our files show endow with other prepositions, but these are fairly rare: • A chair of agriculture, endowed in the sum of $125,000, has been provided —Science, 21 Dec. 1928 • ... people who have been overgenerously endowed in the way of height —Hamilton Basso, The View From Pompey's Head, 1954 • ... the mellow wisdom which once he had dreamed that the slow advance of years would endow upon him —James T. Farrell, What Time Collects, 1964 |
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