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, all of us, have a vested interest in keeping the game going.
  我们所有的人对继续这游戏都是既得利益者。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• We have no vested interest in this respect.
  我们在这方面没有既得利益。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。