1.捐赠;捐款;基金;养老金
2.天赋,天资
1.the act of giving money to a college, hospital, or other institution; an amount of money that someone gives to an institution
2.a good ability or quality that someone has
1.Harvard has by far the largest endowment of any American university, thirty-five billion, followed by Yale at twenty-two and a half billion.
哈佛大学拥有350亿美元的捐赠基金，是美国大学中最有钱的学校。其次是耶鲁大学，有225亿美元。
2.Other data indicate that the endowment fund of Harvard University was all over British universities received contributions combined.
还有数据表明，哈佛大学获得的捐赠资金超过英国全部大学所获捐款的总和。
3.By law in the US, as a charity you have to spend 5% of your endowment [annually], so you're always trying to meet this number.
依据美国的法律，你（每年）必需花掉捐款的5%，因此你需要一直努力达到这个数字。
4.I see. I'll buy the endowment policy, for it enables me to save money for my own old age and provide money for my husband if I die.
我明白了，我要买养老保险，因为它使我老年有钱花，我死后，我丈夫也会有钱花。
5.All the funds would be placed in an endowment such that the $150bn principal investment would not be spent, just the income it generated.
所有这些资金都将放在一个捐赠账户中，支出的不是1500亿美元的投资本金，而是其产生的收益。
6."We need to be prepared to absorb unprecedented endowment losses and plan for a period of greater financial constraint, " she wrote.
她写道：“我们需要做好准备，接受捐赠空前减少的情况，并为度过一段更严重的财务紧缩时期做好准备。”
7.The report is being released just over a week before Mr. Gioia steps down after six years as the endowment's chairman.
距这则报道发表一个多星期前，做了六年基金会会长的焦亚先生就卸任了。
8.The endowment effect is an irrational preference to keep what you have rather than switch. Better the devil you know and all that.
“禀赋效应”是一种非理性偏好，即珍惜你拥有的东西，而不是去改变它。选择你熟悉的东西。
9.Is it fair that she was born with a genetic endowment that led her to grow into a highly attractive young woman, capable of being a model?
由于天生丽质，她比其他女性漂亮得多，令她能成为一名模特，这公平吗？
10.She was a simple, practical, hard-working woman, but she possessed faith in large endowment.
她是个单纯而实际的女人，对信念具有宏大的天赋。