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

• 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。
• 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。
• Endowments could achieve more by selling shares in companies responsible for the heaviest emissions, such as coal producers.
  如果捐赠基金卖出所持的煤炭生产企业等排放量最大公司的股票，那将取得更好的效果。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Portfolios are tailored to a client's including wealthy families, endowments and charities in the UK and continental Europe needs.
  投资组合会根据客户的需求定制。这些客户包括英国和欧洲大陆的富有家庭、捐赠基金和慈善组织。
• Colleges and their endowments are excused from taxes.
  大学和他们的捐赠基金是免税的。
• 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。