empower

[im'pauə]

vt.授权, 使能够

例句与用法:

The new laws empower the police to search private house.

新的法律使警察得以搜查私人住宅。

The new laws empower the police to stop anybody in the street.

新法令授予警察可以在街上截停任何人的权利。

The lawyer was empowered to pay all her bills.

律师已被授权偿付她的一切帐单。

词形变化:

名词: empowerment | 动词过去式: empowered | 动词过去分词: empowered | 动词现在分词: empowering | 动词第三人称单数: empowers |

详细释义:

vt.

1. 授权, 准许[O2][H]

Congress is empowered to levy taxes.

国会被授权征税。

2. 使能够

The new law empowered the police to search private houses.

新的法律使警察得以搜查私人住宅。