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

• Their college is supported by a combination of income from endowments and fees from the students.
  他们的大学是由捐款和学生的学费两项收入维持的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Adopt the classic labor cost theory from the advantage comparison theory and the new classical theory of factor endowments on international trade to study the free trade of the developing countries.
  从比较优势理论的古典劳动力成本理论和国际贸易的新古典要素禀赋理论来研究发展中国家的自由贸易。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Oxford and Cambridge colleges have numerous endowments.
  牛津和剑桥大学有数不清的捐助财物。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。