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donate 【根】don＝to give（給予）
To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute.
To make a contribution to a fund or cause.
v. 捐贈；捐獻
n. 捐贈；捐獻

例句：
We donate to the school endowment fund every year.
我們每年向學校的捐贈基金捐款。

endow
To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
vt. 賦予；捐贈；天生具有

例句：
She is endowed with great musical ability.
她的音樂天賦很高。
He endowed the hospital with half his fortune.
他把他的一半財產捐贈給了這家醫院。

dowery
Money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage. Also called dower.
A sum of money required of a postulant at a convent.
A natural endowment or gift; a talent.
n.=dowry 嫁妝；天資

donation
The act of giving to a fund or cause.
A gift or grant.
n. 捐款，捐贈物；捐贈

例句：
She made a donation of $5,000 to the Children's Hospital.
她捐了五千美元給兒童醫院。

donee
The recipient of a gift
n. 受贈者，受贈人

donor
One that contributes something, such as money, to a cause or fund.
Medicine. An individual from whom blood, tissue, or an organ is taken for transfusion, implantation, or transplant.
Chemistry. An atom, molecule, or ion that provides a part to combine with an acceptor, especially an atom that provides two electrons to form a bond with another atom.
Electronics. An element introduced into a semiconductor with a negative valence greater than that of the pure semiconductor.
n. 捐贈者；供者；贈送人 ；【醫】供血者;獻皮者;(器官等的)供者；【物】【電子】施主

dose doss長的蠻像的，241期講哈
A specified quantity of a therapeutic agent, such as a drug or medicine, prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals. The amount of radiation administered as therapy to a given site.
An ingredient added, especially to wine, to impart flavor or strength.
An amount, especially of something unpleasant, to which one is
To give (someone) a dose, as of medicine.
To give or prescribe (medicine) in specified amounts.
n. 劑量；一劑，一服
vi. 服藥
vt. 給藥；給…服藥

例句：
Feverish patients were dosed with quinine.
給發高燒病人服用了奎寧。

anecdote an=un ec=ex ecdot-edit
A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
pl. an·ec·dotes or an·ec·do·ta (-dōtə) Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography.
n. 軼事；奇聞；秘史

例句：
She told us anecdotes about the hospital and the patients.
她告訴我有關這家醫院及病人的趣聞軼事。

condone
To overlook, forgive, or disregard (an offense) without protest or censure. See Synonyms at forgive.
vt. 寬恕；赦免

pardon par= per, thoroughly
字面意思to give up someone’s fault thoroughly
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: pardoner, from Late Latin perdonare 'to give freely']

To release (a person) from punishment; exempt from penalty: a convicted criminal who was pardoned by the governor.
To let (an offense) pass without punishment.
To make courteous allowance for; excuse
The act of pardoning.
Law. Exemption of a convicted person from the penalties of an offense or crime by the power of the executor of the laws. An official document or warrant declaring such an exemption.
Allowance or forgiveness for an offense or a discourtesy: begged the host's pardon for leaving early.
n. 原諒；赦免；寬恕
vt. 原諒；赦免；寬恕

例句：
I beg your pardon. I suppose I should have knocked.
請原諒。我想我應該先敲一下門的。
Pardon me for not writing to you sooner.
請原諒我未能及早給你寫信。

forgive forget foreign
To excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon.
To renounce anger or resentment against.
To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example).
To accord forgiveness.
vt. 原諒；免除（債務、義務等）
vi. 表示原諒

例句：
He is not a man who forgives easily.
他不是一個輕易寬恕別人的人。
Will you forgive me the debt?
你免除我的債務行嗎?