endowment

英 [ɪnˈdaʊmənt]

美 [ɪnˈdaʊmənt]

n.  捐款; 捐赠; 资助; 天赋; 天资; 才能

复数：endowments　

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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

• Well, we have health insurance, endowment insurance, transportation allowances, luncheon allowances, and subsidized housing.
  我们有健康保险，人寿保险，交通补贴，午餐补贴和住房补贴。
• Right protection and resource allocation exert great influence on the justice of insurance endowment.
  权利保障和资源分配对两性养老保险分配的公平性具有重要影响。
• 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。
• 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？
• Enterprise and worker answer by the regulation the cost of primary endowment insurance of pay does not get derate.
  企业和职工按规定应缴纳的基本养老保险费不得减免。
• The country advocates an enterprise to build system of compensatory endowment insurance for the worker.
  国家提倡企业为职工建立补充养老保险制度。
• 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。
• 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？
• Join the enterprise of endowment insurance and worker, have share the right that controls with exercise lawfully.
  参加养老保险的企业和职工，有依法参与和行使监督的权利。
• 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？