bequests
n. 遗赠( bequest的名词复数 ); 遗产,遗赠物
A bequest is money or property which you legally leave to someone when you die.
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。
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.
He left bequests of money to all his friends.
他留下一些钱遗赠给他所有的朋友.
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.
She castigated the tax on gifts and bequests as a threat to small business.
她把对礼物和遗赠物征税斥之为对小商号的一种威胁.
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.