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

• 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。
• The Oxford and Cambridge colleges have numerous endowments.
  牛津和剑桥大学有数不清的捐助财物。
• 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。
• 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。
• They had many detractors and their philanthropic endowments helped to sanitise subsequent memories of them.
  诋毁他们的人很多，而慈善捐赠有助于改善后人对他们的回忆。
• Not everyone was born with such endowments as you.
  并非所有的人生来都像你这样有天赋。
• 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。
• Both Stanford and Harvard last year relied on their endowments to provide 30 per cent of their budgets.
  去年，斯坦福和哈佛均依靠捐赠基金提供了30%的预算资金。
• 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。
• 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。