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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。