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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With college endowments, how much is too much?
  使用大学捐赠基金，花费多少钱才过分？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。