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

• All you're doing is warning somebody that this person has a vested interest making you believe something.
  你们做的就是警告人们，这个人有兴趣让你们相信什么。
• Because people in new zealand, they have vested interest in all of this.
  因为新西兰人对这幕戏都很感兴趣。
• 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。
• But drug companies have a vested interest in disease-mongering.
  但制药公司已经从制造疾病中获得了既得利益。
• 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）。
• 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。
• This, he argues, could be staffed by former derivatives experts and lawyers, since they not only understand finance but also have a vested interest in ensuring that their beloved derivatives business is built on credible foundations.
  该法庭成员可以由前衍生品专家和律师组成，因为他们不仅懂金融，而且，确保他们钟爱的衍生品业务建立在可信赖的基础之上，符合他们的既得利益。
• Today, all the choices involve difficult trade-offs: Local governments need revenue from land sales since that is their main source of income and have a vested interest in keeping prices high.
  如今，摆在眼前的所有选择都涉及到艰难的取舍：地方政府需要卖地收入，因为那是他们的主要收入来源，所以维持高房价是他们的既得利益所在。
• Fast-rising land prices have lifted local government revenues, so officials have a vested interest in keeping prices inflated.
  快速增长的土地价格抬高了地方政府的收入，因此官员有动力让房价维持上涨。
• And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing and they will have reason to misunderstand.
  届时将会有自利的批评，有一个不喜欢你正在做什么的既得利益，他们会产生误解的原因。