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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We have no vested interest in this respect.
  我们在这方面没有既得利益。
• The tobacco companies have a vested interest in claiming that cigarette smoking isn't harmful.
  烟草公司声称吸烟无害是因为他们对此有既得利益。
• 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。
• The uninformed American public has developed a vested interest in their condemnation of Mary.
  蒙昧的美国公民把对玛丽的谴责发展成为一种既得利益。
• 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。
• 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。