to give sb the power or authority to do sth
The courts were empowered to impose the death sentence for certain crimes.
法院有权因某些罪行判处罪犯死刑。
The movement actively empowered women and gave them confidence in themselves.
这场运动使女性更能主动掌握自己的命运，对自己充满信心。
1.授权,准许
2.使能
1.to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something
2.to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
1.It seemed like if there was anything I could add to this or empower someone in order to realize this, then I wanted to be a part of that.
似乎是这样的，如果我有能力给一部影片添加点东西或者能使别人理解它，那么我就想加入到这部片子中去。
2.Parent empower our lives, even if a person is not on how much the age of parents, who have become orphans.
父母赋予我们生命，即使一个人多大年龄上没有了父母，他都成了孤儿。
3.Its intention may to be to empower people, but its effect is often to disempower them.
它的本意也许是授权，结果往往却恰恰相反。
4.In other words he is willing to cancel all your debts and then come and live with you, and guide you, and change you, and empower you.
换言之，他愿意取消所有债务，然后就和你住在一起，引导你，改变你，赋予你。
5.Service-oriented companies motivate, train and empower their employees to act like the company they work for is their own business.
本公司服务的激励，培训和授权员工行为像他们工作的公司是他们自己的事。
6.Kennedy is admired for his moralism, toughness and desire to empower the poor; his story shows "the driving power of social conscience" .
肯尼迪因其良好道德、态度强硬及为穷人争取权力而受人敬仰，他的故事阐释了“社会公德的主导力量”。
7.As someone who used to have to fly for business all the time, she knows what low cost airlines have done to empower travellers in ASEAN.
作为一个已经习惯搭飞机出差的人而言，她知道廉价航空公司带给东盟国家旅客的是什么。
8.The chance to raise his awareness and empower him to think of his own solutions would be lost.
这样一来，让他提高自己的认识，自己想出解决办法的机会就丧失了。
9.Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?
我是该让痛苦毒害并腐蚀我的灵魂还是该请求上帝赋予我力量，将愤怒驱逐？
10.It's intention may be to empower people, but its effect is often to disempower them.
我们的目的也许是要赋予人们这种能力，但结果常常是使他们丧失这种能力。