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

• A vested interest cannot be asserted against it because of conditions once obtaining.
  因为一旦条件具备，某种既得利益就不能与之抗衡。
• 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。
• To implement the concept will require restricting vested interest groups and effective law enforcement, researchers and legislators said.
  研究人员和立法人士均表示，为了践行（包容性增长）这一理念，就需要限制既得利益集团，并促成各项法律的有效实施。
• 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。
• Secondly, he said, many people have a vested interest in protecting Chanel's aura of unsullied chic.
  其次是，很多已从香奈儿那里得到既得利益的人在试图保护香奈儿清白时尚的光环。
• Almost all large organizations offer it since, after all, they have a vested interest in your success.
  几乎所有的大型公司均提供类似的培训。毕竟，公司是希望你成功的。
• We have no vested interest in this respect.
  我们在这方面没有既得利益。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。