- 1遺贈（遺囑裡指定留給某人的錢或財產；不是「遺產」的全部）
A bequest is money, a house, or other things you arrange to give someone after you die. It lives in a will, the legal paper. “She left a bequest to the school” means the school gets that gift when she is gone. It is a formal word: lawyers, wills, and charity letters use it. At the dinner table people more often say she left me her house. Though actually a bequest is the gift itself, not the whole pile of things a dead person owned — that bigger pile is an estate. There is a rare verb to bequest, from the noun, but almost everyone uses the older verb bequeath: she bequeathed the piano to her niece. The noun is what you will meet most.
組成From Middle English biqueste / bequeste, from be- + an old word for a saying, a will, a legacy (what you say should happen after you die). Same old “saying” root as bequeath and quoth (“said”). Not related to quest, which comes from Latin.
同家族的字
- bequeaththe usual verb for leaving a bequest
- quothold “said”; they share the old root for speaking
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bequestnoun詞源 1/bɪˈkwɛst/
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The act of bequeathing or leaving by will.
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The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased.
- 2006 SHERRY CLODMAN & EDWARD H. PEARCE: Well Advised. p.25 Civil Sector Press →ISBN A specific bequest is the gift of a specific sum of money, or the gift of a specific property or a particular asset. Perhaps the most common type of bequest, and undoubtedly the most certain, it is the first to be paid after the settlement of estate debts.
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That which is left by will; a legacy.
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That which has been handed down or transmitted.
- Yet some odor of religion is still lingering here, the bequest of pious souls, who had grace to enjoy a foretaste of immortal life.
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A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will.
bequestverb詞源 2
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To give as a bequest; bequeath.
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