endowment

Compared meaning: a natural ability someone is born with (noun).

比较义项：天赋，与生俱来的才能（名词）。

• gift

  Gift stresses an innate ability that feels given by nature, often used warmly with the phrase 'a gift for X'; it is the most personal and emotional of the three words.

  gift 强调一种仿佛与生俱来、由自然赋予的能力，常用于“a gift for X”这样的搭配，是三个词中最亲切、最带感情色彩的说法。

  Painting was never something she studied — it was simply a gift she was born with.

  绘画从来不是她学来的技能——那纯粹是她与生俱来的天赋。

• talent

  Talent is the everyday, neutral word for a natural ability that people notice and that can also be trained further; it fits both casual and professional contexts.

  talent 是最常见、最中性的说法，指别人能注意到的天生能力，也可以通过后天训练进一步提升，日常和专业场合都适用。

  Scouts travel the country looking for raw acting talent in teenagers.

  星探走遍全国，寻找青少年身上未经雕琢的表演天赋。

• endowment 本词

  Endowment is a formal, somewhat academic or literary word for an innate capacity, often paired with 'genetic' or 'natural'; it sounds too stiff for everyday conversation.

  endowment 是较为正式、带学术或书面色彩的词，常与“genetic”或“natural”搭配，用来指与生俱来的能力，用在日常口语中会显得过于生硬。

  Some psychologists argue intelligence is largely a matter of genetic endowment rather than upbringing.

  一些心理学家认为，智力主要取决于先天禀赋，而非后天教养。

Gift, talent, and endowment can mean a natural ability someone is born with. Gift is warm and personal, as in 'a gift for' something. Talent is the everyday, neutral word for a trainable ability. Endowment is formal and literary, sounding too stiff for daily speech.

这三个词都可以指人天生具备的才能或能力，语气和使用场合有细微差别；endowment 语气更正式、书面化，还常用来指大学或机构获得的“捐赠基金”，这里不比较该义项；gift 也可以指“礼物”，这里同样不比较。