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A large sum of money given to an organization (like a university, hospital, or charity) so that it can use the money — or more often, the interest it earns — to support itself for a long time, sometimes forever. It's also used, a bit more formally or , for a natural quality or ability someone was born with, like a talent — 'her greatest endowment is her creativity,' or sometimes jokingly about physical features.
捐贈基金（長期支持機構的資金）；天賦、稟賦（較正式或帶點幽默的用法）
組成'Endow' + '-ment' (a noun ending).
同家族的字
- endowsame root word, meaning to give money or a quality to someone/something
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
endowmentnoun/ɪnˈdaʊmənt/
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Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
- I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments.
- Thus it was with Henrietta. She knew more of the world than most women of her years; for her converse had been chiefly with her uncle, a man of remarkable endowments: and she had read an infinite variety of book—read them, too, with that quick perception which seizes motive and meaning with intuitive accuracy.
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Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
- Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.
- 1932, Robert Clarkson Clothier, after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey I seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
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businessinsuranceEndowment assurance or pure endowment.
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A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。