bequests是什么意思？

bequests

• n. 遗赠( bequest的名词复数 )，遗产，遗赠物；

例句

• The estate was sliced up into very small bequests. 这份产业被分成了很小的一份份遗产.
• He left bequests of money to all his friends. 他留下一些钱遗赠给他所有的朋友.
• Yet it is not bequests that raise appropriateness, but inheritances. 然而,引起正当性争议的并不是遗赠, 而是遗产继承.
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  遗产
  A bequest is money or property which you legally leave to someone when you die.
  例句
  The church here was left a bequest to hire doctors who would work amongst the poor. 这个教堂接收到一笔遗产，可以用来聘请医生为穷人治病。