bestow

1. V-T To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them. 授予[正式]

The United States bestowed honorary citizenship upon England's World War II prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill. 美國授予了二戰(zhàn)期間的英國首相溫斯頓·丘吉爾爵士榮譽(yù)公民的稱號。