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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Oxford and Cambridge colleges have numerous endowments.
  牛津和剑桥大学有数不清的捐助财物。
• 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。
• 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。
• Colleges and their endowments are excused from taxes.
  大学和他们的捐赠基金是免税的。
• 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。
• 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 expansion theory of factor endowments includes two dimensions, that is, the quantity and quality, which differs from the mechanism of the economic convergence.
  扩展的要素禀赋理论包括要素数量和要素质量两个维度，它们对后发经济收敛的机理是不一样的。