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

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 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。
Not only do endowments help in campus construction and in attracting faculty, but in attracting students too.
美国大学捐赠基金不仅有助于校园建设和吸引师资，还有助于吸引学生。
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。
I know I am smart, have talent, but only because I was white, I have performance and mining conditions of these endowments.
我知道我很聪明，有天赋，但只因为我是白人，我才有条件表现和挖掘这些禀赋。
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。
In this strategy, endowments must be the envy of hedge funds.
运用这一招，捐赠资金定会让对冲资金感到眼红。
With college endowments, how much is too much?
使用大学捐赠基金，花费多少钱才过分？
Colleges and their endowments are excused from taxes.
大学和他们的捐赠基金是免税的。
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。