endowments

英 [ɪnˈdaʊmənts]

美 [ɛnˈdaʊmənts]

n.  捐款; 捐赠; 资助; 天赋; 天资; 才能
endowment的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 资助;捐款
  Anendowmentis a gift of money that is made to an institution or community in order to provide it with an annual income.
  1. The company revived the finances of the Oxford Union with a generous £1m endowment.
     那家公司慷慨捐款100万英镑，使牛津辩论学会的财务状况得以好转。
  2. ...the National Endowment for the Arts.
     国家艺术基金
• 天资;天赋
  If someone has anendowmentof a particular quality or ability, they possess it naturally.
• 定期人寿保险；定期人寿保险按揭
  In finance, anendowmentpolicy or mortgage is an insurance policy or mortgage which you pay towards each month and which should then provide you with enough money to pay for your house at the end of a fixed period.

双语例句

• Some of America's richest private universities are increasing their charges, because their endowments have suffered steep losses.
  由于资助蒙受了巨大的损失，一些美国最富裕的私立大学也在增加他们的收费。
• The expansion theory of factor endowments includes two dimensions, that is, the quantity and quality, which differs from the mechanism of the economic convergence.
  扩展的要素禀赋理论包括要素数量和要素质量两个维度，它们对后发经济收敛的机理是不一样的。
• Both Stanford and Harvard last year relied on their endowments to provide 30 per cent of their budgets.
  去年，斯坦福和哈佛均依靠捐赠基金提供了30%的预算资金。
• It is also true that such donors are taking more risks with their giving than traditional endowments or trusts.
  与传统的捐赠或信托相比，这类捐赠人在捐赠方面所冒的风险更大，这也是没错的。
• They had many detractors and their philanthropic endowments helped to sanitise subsequent memories of them.
  诋毁他们的人很多，而慈善捐赠有助于改善后人对他们的回忆。
• Certain endowments slowly moving away from the Yale model.
  4.一些捐赠基金慢慢退出了耶鲁（Yale）模式。
• The fund said its returns had been better than most other SWFs, pension funds or university endowments.
  中投公司称，其投资回报好于其它多数主权财富基金、养老基金或大学捐赠基金。
• I know I am smart, have talent, but only because I was white, I have performance and mining conditions of these endowments.
  我知道我很聪明，有天赋，但只因为我是白人，我才有条件表现和挖掘这些禀赋。
• Potential recruits have typically tended to come from endowments, pension funds and other public institutions.
  潜在人选往往来自慈善基金、养老基金以及其它公共机构。
• The sour economy has damaged the university's endowments and interest accounts, leaving it struggling for revenue this year, they said.
  酸的经济，损害了大学的天赋和兴趣的帐户，让奋斗的收入，今年，他们说。