endowment

英 [ɪnˈdaʊmənt]

美 [ɪnˈdaʊmənt]

n.  捐款; 捐赠; 资助; 天赋; 天资; 才能

复数：endowments　

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Collins.2 / BNC.7253 / COCA.10430

牛津词典

noun

• 捐款；捐赠；资助
  money that is given to a school, a college or another institution to provide it with an income; the act of giving this money
• 天赋；天资；才能
  a quality or an ability that you are born with

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.

英英释义

noun

• the act of endowing with a permanent source of income
  1. his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time
• natural abilities or qualities
  Synonym:gifttalentnatural endowment
• the capital that provides income for an institution
  Synonym:endowment fund

双语例句

• The source of economic growth: resources endowment, technology or institution?
  经济增长的源泉：资源禀赋、技术还是制度？
• Right protection and resource allocation exert great influence on the justice of insurance endowment.
  权利保障和资源分配对两性养老保险分配的公平性具有重要影响。
• The primary problem of rural social endowment insurance in China is the raising of pension funds.
  摘要我国农村社会养老保险的首要问题是保险基金筹集问题。
• Primary endowment insurance accomplishs centralized system, uniform standard, unified managing to mix unified regulate use fund.
  基本养老保险做到统一制度、统一标准、统一治理和统一调剂使用基金。
• Do enterprise and worker attend primary endowment insurance what to right and obligation there are?
  企业和职工参加基本养老保险有什么权利和义务？
• Multi-support endowment insurance is the development of endowment insurance theory.
  多支柱养老保险是养老保险理论的完善和发展。
• Can choose to attend endowment insurance and medical treatment insurance.
  可以选择参加养老保险和医疗保险。
• Well, we have health insurance, endowment insurance, transportation allowances, luncheon allowances, and subsidized housing.
  我们有健康保险，人寿保险，交通补贴，午餐补贴和住房补贴。
• Ask: what is the suitable scope that I save social endowment insurance?
  问：我省社会养老保险的适用范围是什么？
• An endowment is money from donations and investments.
  一笔捐赠的基金是来自捐款和投资的收益。