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

• With college endowments, how much is too much?
  使用大学捐赠基金，花费多少钱才过分？
• 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。
• It is also true that such donors are taking more risks with their giving than traditional endowments or trusts.
  与传统的捐赠或信托相比，这类捐赠人在捐赠方面所冒的风险更大，这也是没错的。
• The Oxford and Cambridge colleges have numerous endowments.
  牛津和剑桥大学有数不清的捐助财物。
• Money and with it salaries, endowments and institutional power moved in their favour.
  资金，还有薪酬、捐款和制度权力等方面，都朝着有利于他们的方向发展。
• Endowments could achieve more by selling shares in companies responsible for the heaviest emissions, such as coal producers.
  如果捐赠基金卖出所持的煤炭生产企业等排放量最大公司的股票，那将取得更好的效果。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。