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

• The Oxford and Cambridge colleges have numerous endowments.
  牛津和剑桥大学有数不清的捐助财物。
• 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。
• He put forward ideas such as equal natural endowments and personality liberation.
  他提出的天赋平等、个性解放等思想，开启了中国启蒙思想的先河。
• With college endowments, how much is too much?
  使用大学捐赠基金，花费多少钱才过分？
• Many endowments and pension funds allocate assets to hedge funds.
  许多捐赠基金和养老基金资产，以对冲基金的分配。
• In this strategy, endowments must be the envy of hedge funds.
  运用这一招，捐赠资金定会让对冲资金感到眼红。
• 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。
• 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。
• The overall goal of this paper is to have better understanding of the characteristics of groundwater markets and its relationship with water endowments in northern China.
  论文利用河北和河南两省的实地调查数据，分析了中国北方地区地下水市场特征的地区差异，及其与当地水资源禀赋的关系。
• 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。