中文词源
underwrite 承购，承保
under-, 在下面，write, 写，签字，即在下面签字。引申词义承购，承保。
英语词源
- underwrite (v.)
- Old English underwritan "write at the foot of; subscribe;" see under + write (v.). A loan-translation of Latin subscribere (see subscribe). Used literally at first; modern sense of "to accept the risk of insurance" (1620s) is from notion of signing a marine insurance policy. Meaning "to support by a guarantee of money" is recorded from 1890.
权威例句
- 1. National banks can package their own mortgages and underwrite them as securities.
- 国家银行能够合并自己的抵押贷款并以证券形式包销。
- 2. No bank would be willing to underwrite such a loss.
- 没有哪家银行愿意承担这样的损失.
- 3. A group of ten international banks is to underwrite and sell the bonds.
- 一个由10家国际银行组成的银团将包销及出售这些债券.
- 4. The government will have to create a special agency to underwrite small business loans.
- 政府需要设立专门机构来为小企业贷款作担保。
- 5. Public institutions will survive these cutbacks because state monies will continue to underwrite operating expenses.
- 公立院校将渡过这种削减的困难,因为州财政将同意继续承担办学费用.