喜樂美語
  1. 1nC1/ˈfʌndɪŋ/資金 / 經費

    Money that an organization or government gives to pay for a particular purpose.

    that an organization or government gives一個組織或政府所提供的 Money錢 to pay for a particular purpose用來支付某個特定的用途

    示範例句 · Example

    The school got funding to build a new library.

    逐字學校得到了資金來蓋一座新圖書館。

    「funding」可以想成「為了某個目的而撥下來的一筆錢」——通常來自政府、學校或機構，不是個人的零用錢。常說 government funding（政府經費）、funding for a project（某計畫的經費）。它是不可數名詞，重點在「資金的來源和用途」，不是錢的張數。

    常見搭配

    • government funding

      政府經費

      money given by the government for a purpose

      The hospital relies on government funding.

    • funding for something

      某項目的經費

      money provided for a particular thing

      They need funding for new books.

    • apply for funding

      申請經費

      to formally ask for money for a project

      The club applied for funding to buy uniforms.

    • cut funding

      刪減經費

      to reduce the money given for something

      The town cut funding for the bus service.

core核心畫面

Picture a tap of money being turned on to feed a particular project: an organization or government supplies the cash that keeps it running. 'Funding' is that flow of supplied money, aimed at one purpose.

可以想成有人替某個計畫「打開金錢的水龍頭」：機構或政府撥出一筆錢，源源供給，讓這件事跑得起來。funding 就是這股「被撥來、專門用在某個用途上」的資金流——重點在於它是被提供出來支持某件事的，而不只是放著的錢。

From the word’s history

From 'fund' (a stock/store of money) + '-ing'; 'fund' goes back to Latin 'fundus' = bottom, base, piece of land — the underlying stock you build on. So 'funding' is supplying that base of money.

由 fund（一筆儲備的錢）加 -ing 而來；fund 可追溯到拉丁文 fundus，意為「底部、基礎、一塊地」——也就是你立足、往上蓋的那個底。可以想成 funding 就是「替某件事鋪下那塊錢的底」，把資金供應出來當地基。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), s.v. 'fund'

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

原始詞典資料3 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。

fundingnoun/ˈfʌndɪŋ/

  • 1

    The action of the verb fund.

    • However the collapse in demand for rail and air travel caused by the pandemic has had a knock-on effect for the project's funding.
  • 2

    Money provided as funds.

    • The council is providing funding to the church to repair the roof.
    • Second, a bank can commit to provide a maximum amount of money (e.g., $US1,000,000) in one or more fundings over a set period of time (e.g., one year). Such credit facilities are called “lines of credit.”

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。