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。
• Liberalism is either dead or dying in our culture sustained only by the life support of endowments.
  新派神学在我们的文化里不是死了就是正在死去，只是由人的捐赠维持生命苟延残喘。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。