Endow

(verb.) furnish with an endowment; 'When she got married, she got dowered'.

(verb.) give qualities or abilities to.

校对:贾斯廷

• You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A man can manufacture a plough and operate it, but no amount of ploughs will create a man and endow him with skill. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I am weak; but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• As it has a double task to perform, it must be endowed with double force and energy. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Edison’s record was not for visual inspection, but was endowed with the mechanical function of reproducing sound. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Two non-entities cannot exclude each other from their places; because they never possess any place, nor can be endowed with any quality. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But he was unluckily endowed with a good name and a large though encumbered estate, both of which went rather to injure than to advance him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• They helped to organize a formless resentment by endowing it with intelligence and will. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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