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

• Not only do endowments help in campus construction and in attracting faculty, but in attracting students too.
  美国大学捐赠基金不仅有助于校园建设和吸引师资，还有助于吸引学生。
• 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。
• 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。
• Adopt the classic labor cost theory from the advantage comparison theory and the new classical theory of factor endowments on international trade to study the free trade of the developing countries.
  从比较优势理论的古典劳动力成本理论和国际贸易的新古典要素禀赋理论来研究发展中国家的自由贸易。
• With college endowments, how much is too much?
  使用大学捐赠基金，花费多少钱才过分？
• 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。
• 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。
• Colleges and their endowments are excused from taxes.
  大学和他们的捐赠基金是免税的。
• The expansion theory of factor endowments includes two dimensions, that is, the quantity and quality, which differs from the mechanism of the economic convergence.
  扩展的要素禀赋理论包括要素数量和要素质量两个维度，它们对后发经济收敛的机理是不一样的。
• The fund said its returns had been better than most other SWFs, pension funds or university endowments.
  中投公司称，其投资回报好于其它多数主权财富基金、养老基金或大学捐赠基金。