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

• 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。
• That said, other endowments also had to weather the financial crisis.
  话虽如此，其他捐赠基金也得应对金融危机的挑战。
• 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。
• The endowments, along with other investors who accepted consultants'conventional wisdom on alternative assets, have suffered in consequence.
  这些捐赠资金，与采纳了咨询顾问有关另类资产的传统建议的其他投资者，都成了受害者。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Not everyone was born with such endowments as you.
  并非所有的人生来都像你这样有天赋。