- 1捐贈（設立一筆可產生收益的基金）
To endow a college, a hospital, or a similar place is to give it a large amount of money — not just to buy one thing, but to set up a fund. That money is invested, and the income from it keeps helping the place year after year: scholarships, a clinic, a teaching post. It is a formal word. You meet it in news about gifts to universities, and in history. Though actually, English also uses endowed another way: "endowed with" can mean given a quality, as in "endowed with a beautiful voice." That use is figurative. The older, concrete meaning — and the one this entry is about — is the gift of money that keeps producing support.
組成From Late Middle English endowen, from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- ("in, into") + douer ("to endow"), from Latin dōtāre, from dōs ("dowry; a gift of money or property").
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
endowverb/ɪnˈdaʊ/
- 1
To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
- His [John, King of England's] Acts and Orders for the VVeale-publike vvere beyond moſt: hee being either the firſt, or the chiefeſt, vvho appointed thoſe noble Formes of Ciuill gouernement in London, and moſt Cities, and Incorporate Tovvnes of England, endovving them alſo vvith their greateſt Franchiſes; […]
- Men began to build Churches on their own Grounds, at their own Charges, and to endow theſe; and they were naturally the Maſters, and in the true Signification of the Roman word, the Patrons of them.
- 2
To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
- Wherby we bith lerned þat it shalnot only be goode to owre prince, but also to vs selff, that he be well indowed; ffor ellis the patriarke wolde not haue made such a trety.
- Vpon her eyelids many Graces ſate, / Vnder the ſhadow of her euen browes, / VVorking belgardes [beautiful looks], and amorous retrate [portrait], / And euerie one her with a grace endowes: […]
- 3
To naturally furnish (with something).
- She was endowed with a beautiful voice.
- And thus shal the aged Courtier, although he exercise not the qualities that he is indowed withal, comebye his ende at length, to instructe well hys Prince.
- 4
archaicobsoleteTo provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
- And if a man entice a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he ſhall ſurely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuſe to giue her vnto him, he ſhall pay money according to the dowrie of virgins.
- Also if a man ſeiſed in Fee Simple beeing within age endoweth his wife at the Monaſterie or Church doore, and dieth, and his wife enter, in this caſe the heire of the huſband may out her. But otherwiſe it is, (as it ſeemeth) where the father is ſeiſed in fee, and the ſonne within age endoweth his wife ex aſſenſu patris, the Father being then of full age.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。