及物动词
1. Modern science and technology empower human beings to control natural forces more effectively.
现代科学技术使人类能更有效地制服自然。
2. Congress is empowered to levy taxes.
国会被授权征税。
3. 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。
1. 赋予：英美两国的例子均显示,媒体素养教育的意涵从防疫性(inoculation)进展到批判自主性(critical autonomy),其目标从培养个人对媒体讯息的分辨与抵制能力(discriminate and resist)延伸到在媒体环伺生活中的释放(liberate)与赋予(empower)能力,一个具媒体素养的个人,
1. 授权；给予…权力
If someone is empowered to do something, they have the authority or power to do it.
e.g. The army is now empowered to operate on a shoot-to-kill basis...
军队得到授权,在行动中可以开枪射杀。
e.g. His position does not empower him to cite our views without consultation.
他的地位并没有给予他不经许可就引用我们观点的权力。
2. 给予…力量；使有能力(实现…)
To empower someone means to give them the means to achieve something, for example to become stronger or more successful.
e.g. Empowering the underprivileged lies in assuring them that education holds the real source of power...
帮助贫困人民就要让他们相信教育是真正的力量源泉。
e.g. What I'm trying to do is to empower people, to give them ways to help them get well.
我现在努力做的就是帮助人们，引他们过上好日子。