dower

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Three daughters were being married, he didn't have money to buy dower.
三个女儿快要出嫁了，他为没有钱给她们买嫁妆而难过。
"When you look at Japan in the modern world, since Perry, the country has pulled together in quite remarkable ways in many decisive moments," Dower said.
从近代世界看日本，从佩林开始，日本这个国家在许多决定性的时刻，在很多方面都能团结一致。
He always intended to manumit those of his slaves who were his own to free (as opposed to the “dower slaves” from his wife’s estate) and he did free them in his will.
他一直打算释放自己的奴隶（不能从妻子财产里解放“陪嫁奴隶”），后来在遗嘱中确实这样做了。

When the fighting is finished, history is written, inevitably by those in power, observes Mr Dower.
ECONOMIST: A timely meditation on shaping narratives of the past
For a solution, Mr Dower looks to the 20th-century views of E.
ECONOMIST: A timely meditation on shaping narratives of the past
Even Germany and even Japan, Dower notes, experienced periods of parliamentary politics, if not outright democracy, during the century prior to World War II.
MSN: An occupation without precedent

a share of a man's money and property that belongs to his widow (= wife) after he dies