fund

英 [f?nd] 美[f?nd]

CET4TEM4考研TOEFLCET6高頻詞基本詞匯

復數:?funds;第三人稱單數:?funds;過去式:?funded;現在分詞:?funding;

fund 資金

來自PIE*bhudh, 底部，基礎，詞源同bottom, founder. 用做經濟學名詞資金。比較finance.

fund: fund: [17] Latin fundus meant ‘bottom’. English originally acquired it via French as fond, and in the course of the 17th century re-latinized it to fund. The literal meaning ‘bottom’ was retained until the mid 18th century (‘a Glass-Bubble fix’d to the Fund of a Vessel’, British Apollo 1709), but gradually it gave way to the metaphorical ‘basic supply, particularly of money’. From fundus was derived the Latin verb fundāre ‘lay the bottom for, establish’ (source of English found), and the next step on from this was the noun fundāmentum ‘bottom part, foundation’, which gave English fundament [13] and fundamental [15].
=> found, fundament
fund (n.): 1670s, "a bottom, the bottom; foundation, groundwork," from French fond "a bottom, floor, ground" (12c.), also "a merchant's basic stock or capital," from Latin fundus "bottom, foundation, piece of land," from PIE root *bhudh- "bottom, base" (cognates: Sanskrit budhnah, Greek pythmen "foundation, bottom," Old English botm "lowest part;" see bottom (n.)). Meaning "stock of money or wealth available for some purpose" is from 1690s; sense of "store of anything to be drawn upon" is from 1704. Funds "money at one's disposal" is from 1728.
fund (v.): 1776, "convert (a debt) into capital or stock represented by interest-bearing bonds," from fund (n.). Meaning "supply (someone or something) with money, to finance" is from 1900.

1. He's accused of misusing $17.5 million from a secret government slush fund.: 他被指控濫用秘密的政府行賄基金，金額達1,750萬美元。

4. The fund will make payments of just over ￡1 billion next year.: 該基金明年的支付額剛好過10億英鎊。

5. Its $25m reserve fund had been run down to around $8m.: 其2,500萬美元的儲備金已被減少到了800萬美元左右。