endowment

英 [ɪnˈdaʊmənt]

美 [ɪnˈdaʊmənt]

n.  捐款; 捐赠; 资助; 天赋; 天资; 才能

复数：endowments　

TOEFL经济

Collins.2 / BNC.7253 / COCA.10430

牛津词典

noun

• 捐款；捐赠；资助
  money that is given to a school, a college or another institution to provide it with an income; the act of giving this money
• 天赋；天资；才能
  a quality or an ability that you are born with

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.

英英释义

noun

• the act of endowing with a permanent source of income
  1. his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time
• natural abilities or qualities
  Synonym:gifttalentnatural endowment
• the capital that provides income for an institution
  Synonym:endowment fund

双语例句

• Primary endowment insurance accomplishs centralized system, uniform standard, unified managing to mix unified regulate use fund.
  基本养老保险做到统一制度、统一标准、统一治理和统一调剂使用基金。
• The company that has joined commercial insurance or worker also must attend primary endowment insurance by the regulation.
  已经参加商业保险的企业或职工也必须按规定参加基本的养老保险。
• The Social Insurance Law has established the basic institutional framework for our country's endowment insurance system.
  《社会保险法》的出台为我国养老保障体制奠定了基本框架。
• Multi-support endowment insurance is the development of endowment insurance theory.
  多支柱养老保险是养老保险理论的完善和发展。
• Fiscal responsibility defect of government restricts the development of rural social endowment insurance.
  政府财政责任的缺失严重制约了我国农村社会养老保险制度的发展。
• This is the endowment effect.
  这便是禀赋效应。
• Individual worker also can buy endowment insurance of commercial medical treatment, buy free occupational endowment insurance for instance.
  个体劳动者也可以买商业医疗养老保险，比如买自由职业的养老保险。
• Ask: what is the suitable scope that I save social endowment insurance?
  问：我省社会养老保险的适用范围是什么？
• Why should build system of rural society endowment insurance?
  为什么要建立农村社会养老保险制度？
• The source of economic growth: resources endowment, technology or institution?
  经济增长的源泉：资源禀赋、技术还是制度？