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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Colleges and their endowments are excused from taxes.
  大学和他们的捐赠基金是免税的。
• 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。
• Not only do endowments help in campus construction and in attracting faculty, but in attracting students too.
  美国大学捐赠基金不仅有助于校园建设和吸引师资，还有助于吸引学生。
• The extreme case of favorable physical resource endowments is, of course, the Persian Gulf oil states.
  有幸得到天赋物质资源好处的极端例子自然是波斯湾各产油国了。
• Our role is to make investments on behalf of our clients who are comprised of the pension plans of firemen, teachers, policemen and other municipal workers and unions, endowments, and other institutions and individuals.
  我们的职责是代表客户进行投资，我们的客户包括消防员、教师、警察和其他市政员工与工会的退休金计划、捐助基金和其他机构与个人。
• 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。
• 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。