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A subvention is money given to help support something, usually by a government or another official body, and usually for a particular purpose — keeping a theatre open, supporting a university department, holding down the price of bread, paying part of the cost of a public service. It is close in meaning to subsidy or grant, and in most everyday situations those are the words English speakers actually use. Subvention is formal and rather . You meet it in official reports, in economics and finance writing, in academic publishing (a subvention can pay for a scholarly book to be printed), and in translations from French or Spanish, where the everyday word for a state grant looks and sounds like this. Many native speakers would go years without using it. If a student subsidy instead, nobody will notice anything is missing. The idea inside it is help from above, or from outside — money that comes in to hold something up that could not stand on its own. That is why it usually implies the thing being funded is not profitable and is thought to be worth keeping anyway. It is normally countable: a subvention, several subventions.
補助款、津貼（政府或機構給的專款補助；日常英文其實多用 subsidy）
組成From Latin subvenire, to come to someone's help — sub- (under, up from under) + venire (to come). The picture is of coming up underneath something to hold it up, which is exactly what this money does.
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。
subventionnoun/sʌbˈvɛnʃ(ə)n/
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A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
- […] the said religious shall […] pay all papal impositions, subventions, and contributions […]
- […] the Crown-Prince, contrary to wont, broke silence, and begged some dole or subvention for these poor people; but there was nothing to be had.
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obsoleteThe act of coming under.
- 1744, Thomas Stackhouse, A New History of the Holy Bible, London: Stephen Austen, 2nd edition, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 845, Now the only Ascension that we read of, besides these, is that of our blessed Saviour; and the Manner, in which he is said to have been carry’d up, was, by the Subvention of a Cloud, which rais’d him from the Ground […]
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archaicThe act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
- […] if we pray to God to remove a lesser judgement by way of subvention, questionlesse we may beseech him to deliver us from the great evill of a wounded conscience, by way of prevention.
- A small body of negroes defied the choicest troops of one of the greatest nations in the world, kept an extensive country in alarm, and were at length brought to surrender, only by means of a subvention still more extraordinary than their own mode of warfare.
subventionverb/sʌbˈvɛnʃ(ə)n/
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To subsidise.
- His task was, it is true, made easier by the need of the English to remove troops to put down the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising, which the French had subventioned.
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。