基本释义
To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them.
v. 授予，赠与
This newspaper believes it is almost always unfair to allow transgender women to compete in women’s sports. The advantages bestowed by male puberty are so big that no amount of training or talent can enable female athletes to overcome them.
本刊认为让跨性别女性参加女子运动几乎毫无公平可言，因为男性青春期时期的发育会赋予选手巨大优势，而无论怎么训练或怎么有天赋，都无法让女性运动员抹平这些差距。《经济学人》
单词bestow由前缀be（强调）+ 词根stow（保存，放置）构成，原指“存放，贮藏”，现在多指“授予（财产、权力或荣誉）”，或者“赠予（礼物）”，是一个书面用词。在表示“将……授予、把……给予”某人时，bestow主要强调将具有重大价值或意义的东西授予某人。常用短语bestow something on / upon somebody表示，比如：The king bestowed great honors upon the hero.
国王将伟大的荣誉授予这位英雄。
The girl has bestowed her heart on the man.
女孩已经将心交给了那个男子。
He usually bestows his spare time on study.
他经常利用业余时间学习。
You should bestow more time to work and less to daydreaming.
你应该多花点儿时间在工作上，少花点时间胡思乱想。
在美剧《摩登家庭》S9E7中，Jeo在讲自己学到的关于感恩节的故事时，就用到了今天的单词：
There was once a land of godless natives. They did not know any better until, one day, the white man arrived. The white man took pity on these primitives by teaching them to cultivate the land. But their kindness was mistaken for aggression, and a war began. Eventually, peace was restored, and we bestowed them with our nation's highest honor - naming football teams for them.曾有一片大地住着不信神的原住民，他们愚蠢无知，直到某天，白人们来了。白人们可怜这些原始人，教导他们如何耕种土地，但他们的善良被误会为侵略，所以战争开打了。最后，一切回归和平，我们还送给了他们我国最高荣誉，让他们冠名橄榄球队。
