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

• 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。
• "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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We have no vested interest in this respect.
  我们在这方面没有既得利益。
• 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。
• Vested interest groups are responsible for the creation of policy.
  政策的创立取决于既得利益集团。