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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Bigger gifts from philanthropists and endowments have also slumped after the financial crisis took its toll on their assets.
  由于资产在金融危机中遭受损失，慈善家和捐赠基金的大笔捐赠也出现了下滑。
• 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。
• Many endowments and pension funds allocate assets to hedge funds.
  许多捐赠基金和养老基金资产，以对冲基金的分配。
• 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。
• Colleges and their endowments are excused from taxes.
  大学和他们的捐赠基金是免税的。