The museum's last annual report values the endowment at $2.5 billion.

博物馆的去年年度报告估价捐达二十五亿美元。

Sweden's central bank created the endowment in 1968.

瑞典中央银行在1968年创立了该基金会。

You mean situations where you need to protect the endowment.

也就是需要维护校方利益的场合。

This will include an endowment to cover some of the maintenance costs.

这面也包含有覆盖维护费用的捐。

Ironically, the colleges that already have the largest endowments tend to receive the biggest charitable donations.

讽刺的是，已经拥有最多资助的大学通常会收到最多的慈善捐赠。

And we're sitting up here worried about our endowment?

而我们坐在这捐的？

Well, they're either collected in the field, donated, or purchased with endowments.

它们要么是在野外采集到的、捐赠的 要么就是用捐赠基金购买的。

And since they have to rely on endowments, museums can't compete at million-dollar auctions.

因为博物馆得依靠赞助，在百万美元的拍卖中可竞争不过。

Because endowments have obligations stretching far into the future, they can take a longterm view.

因为捐赠基金的义务可以延伸到很远的未来，它们可以从长远来看。

Their clients include foreign governments and central banks, pension funds, university endowments, and charitable foundations.

它们的客户包括外国政府和央行、养老基金、大学捐赠基金和慈善基金。

I guess their endowment is plenty big. They don't have any problem with that.

我猜他们捐赠的基金很多。他们对网上授课也没有任何意见。

The company's endowment has shrunk to less than an eighth of its original size.

公司的资金缩水至原有规模的八分之一。

And the reason is, we have to think of ourselves as owning our talents and endowments.

因为人民必须认为自己完全拥有自己的才能与天赋。

Or you can choose a private four-year college, which means the school relies on endowments and tuition.

或者你可以选择私立四年制大学，这意味着该学校依赖捐赠基金和学费。

But Swensen alumni have regularly turned up in senior jobs at other endowments.

但斯文森校友也经常在其他捐赠机构任高级职位。

" The natural distribution" , and here he's talking about the natural distribution of talents and endowments.

“自然分配“，这，他指的是自然对才能和天赋的分配。

One staffer said the endowment's values were, quote, " totally undermined and mocked" by their own board member.

一名员工表示，该基金会的价值观，被他们自己的董会成员“完全破坏和嘲弄”。

But they were told the endowment is bipartisan, and it cannot get dragged into domestic politics.

但他们被告知，该基金会涉及两党，不能被拖入国内政治。

Yale's endowment was then worth around $1bn. By the middle of last year the figure had risen to $31bn.

当时耶鲁的捐赠基金价值约10亿美元。到去年年中，这一数字已升至310亿美元。

Persons of his large sensual endowments must claim indulgence, at their feeding-time.

拥有他丰富的感官天赋的人必须在他们的进食时间要求放纵。