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

• 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。
• The overall goal of this paper is to have better understanding of the characteristics of groundwater markets and its relationship with water endowments in northern China.
  论文利用河北和河南两省的实地调查数据，分析了中国北方地区地下水市场特征的地区差异，及其与当地水资源禀赋的关系。
• Bigger gifts from philanthropists and endowments have also slumped after the financial crisis took its toll on their assets.
  由于资产在金融危机中遭受损失，慈善家和捐赠基金的大笔捐赠也出现了下滑。
• 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。
• Certain endowments slowly moving away from the Yale model.
  4.一些捐赠基金慢慢退出了耶鲁（Yale）模式。
• 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。
• 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。
• Colleges and their endowments are excused from taxes.
  大学和他们的捐赠基金是免税的。
• 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。
• He put forward ideas such as equal natural endowments and personality liberation.
  他提出的天赋平等、个性解放等思想，开启了中国启蒙思想的先河。