vested interest

英 [ˌvestɪd ˈɪntrəst]

美 [ˌvestɪd ˈɪntrəst]

n.  既得利益

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• 既得利益
  a personal reason for wanting sth to happen, especially because you get some advantage from it
  1. They have a vested interest in keeping the club as exclusive as possible.
     他们希望俱乐部尽可能地限制会员加入以从中受益。
  2. Vested interests (= people with a vested interest) are opposing the plan.
     既得利益集团在反对这项计划。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 既得利益;既定权利;好处
  If you have avested interest insomething, you have a very strong reason for acting in a particular way, for example to protect your money, power, or reputation.
  1. Only those with vested interests in the current system could ignore the need for change...
     只有那些在当前的体制中有既得利益的人才会忽略改革的必要性。
  2. The administration has no vested interest in proving whether public schools were good or bad.
     在证明公立学校好坏方面，行政部门不存在既得利益。

英英释义

noun

• groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
• (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another

双语例句

• We may assure the reader that we have no vested interest in the label sociology of knowledge.
  在此对读者保证，在「知识社会学」的标签下，我们没有任何既得利益。
• Investment bankers themselves have a vested interest in not blowing up their firms.
  投资银行家们自己的既得利益不允许他们毁了自己的公司。
• Vested interest groups are responsible for the creation of policy.
  政策的创立取决于既得利益集团。
• In the 1790s Tom Paine taught plebeian radicals that mankind would live in harmony were it not for the vested interest which princes, diplomats and soldiers had in promoting wars to enrich themselves.
  汤姆·潘恩在18世纪90年代教育平民激进分子时论述到，如果不是为了实现王公、外交官和士兵借发起战争而使自己富有的潜在利益，人类本会生活在和谐之中。
• Buffett and others with a vested interest in seeing the SEC fail.
  与大多数人不同的是，看到SEC败诉符合巴菲特等专业人士的既得利益。
• Is the number of people participating drawn from a broad enough spectrum of society so that most people have a vested interest in the continued prosperity and success of the existing social structure?
  在社会中散发出宽广的足够的光忙的参与人员的数量是很少的，所以大部分人在现有的社会结构的持续的繁荣成功中有一个既定利益？
• You have a vested interest in Tim's resignation, eg because you may get his job.
  蒂姆辞职可能对你有好处（如因你可能得到他那份工作）。
• Against this, however, the northern Europeans have a strong vested interest in preventing a Europe-wide banking collapse.
  但尽管如此，阻止欧洲银行业的崩盘，对欧洲北部国家来说，涉及到极大的既得利益。
• "Everyone eats, and everyone has a vested interest in this," he said.
  “每个人都需要吃东西，并且这也是每个人都应有的既得利益。”他说。
• She had a vested interest in seeing the project fail.
  让这计划失败是和她本人利害攸关的。