interests

英 [ˈɪntrəsts]

美 [ˈɪntrəsts]

n.  兴趣; 关注; 引人关注的性质; 吸引力; 趣味; 业余爱好
v.  使感兴趣; 使关注
interest的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 兴趣;兴味;关注
  If you have aninterest insomething, you want to learn or hear more about it.
  1. There has been a lively interest in the elections in the last two weeks...
     近两周来选举受到了热烈关注。
  2. His parents tried to discourage his interest in music, but he persisted...
     他的父母设法打消他对音乐的兴趣,但他始终坚持。
  3. She'd liked him at first, but soon lost interest...
     她刚开始是喜欢他，但很快就失去了兴趣。
  4. Food was of no interest to her at all.
     食物一点都提不起她的兴趣。
• N-COUNT 爱好
  Yourinterestsare the things that you enjoy doing.
  1. Encourage your child in her interests and hobbies even if they're things that you know little about...
     要鼓励孩子的兴趣爱好，即使你对它们所知甚少。
  2. He developed a wide range of sporting interests as a pupil at Millfield.
     他在米尔菲尔德私立学校上学的时候培养了广泛的运动爱好。
• VERB 使感兴趣;引起…的关注
  If somethinginterestsyou, it attracts your attention so that you want to learn or hear more about it or continue doing it.
  1. That passage interested me because it seems to parallel very closely what you're doing in the novel...
     那一段引起了我的关注，因为它似乎与你在小说里所采用的手法非常相似。
  2. It may interest you to know that Miss Woods, the housekeeper, witnessed the attack.
     您或许会有兴趣知道管家伍兹小姐目击了袭击过程。
• VERB 劝诱;说服(某人)做(某事)
  If you are trying to persuade someone to buy or do something, you can say that you are trying tointeresttheminit.
  1. In the meantime I can't interest you in a new car, I suppose?...
     那么我想这时候我不能说服您买辆新车了？
  2. The group wasn't able to interest them in reproducing literature specifically for women.
     这个团体没能说服他们再版专门面向女性的文学作品。
• N-COUNT 利益;福利
  If something is in theinterestsof a particular person or group, it will benefit them in some way.
  1. Did those directors act in the best interests of their club?...
     那些董事行事时是以他们俱乐部的最大利益为出发点吗？
  2. The social worker would try to get her to see she was acting against the boy's interests.
     这位社会工作者会设法让她明白她这么做对这个男孩没有好处。
• N-COUNT 利益相关者;利益集团
  You can useintereststo refer to groups of people who you think use their power or money to benefit themselves.
  1. The government accused unnamed 'foreign interests' of inciting the trouble...
     政府不指名地谴责“外国利益集团”煽动骚乱。
  2. He resigned as finance minister only weeks before the election and stood against big-business interests.
     他在大选到来仅几周前辞去了财政部长职务,并抵制大公司利益集团。
• N-COUNT 权益;股权;产权
  A person or organization that hasinterestsin a company or in a particular type of business owns shares in this company or this type of business.
  1. Her other business interests include a theme park in Scandinavia and hotels in the West Country.
     她其他的公司股权包括斯堪的纳维亚的一个主题游乐园和英格兰西南部的几家酒店。
  2. ...the Hatch family, who controlled large dairy interests...
     掌控大量奶业股权的哈奇家族
  3. Disney will retain a 51 percent controlling interest in the venture.
     迪斯尼将保留该项目 51% 的控股权。
• N-COUNT 利害关系
  If a person, country, or organization has aninterest ina possible event or situation, they want that event or situation to happen because they are likely to benefit from it.
  1. The West has an interest in promoting democratic forces in Eastern Europe...
     东欧民主力量的发展与西方国家利害攸关。
  2. Domestic consumers of petroleum products have an interest in a secure source of petroleum products.
     石油产品的国内消费者希望其来源能够获得保障。
• N-UNCOUNT 利息
  Interestis extra money that you receive if you have invested a sum of money.Interestis also the extra money that you pay if you have borrowed money or are buying something on credit.
  1. Does your current account pay interest?...
     你的活期账户有利息吗？
  2. This is an important step toward lower interest rates.
     这是向较低利率迈出的重要一步。
• See also:interestedinterestingcompound interestself-interestvested interest
• 呼吁所有商人为了国家稳定而团结协作 → see:...a call for all businessmen to work together in the interests of national stability.

双语例句

• The government is committed to protecting the interests of tenants.
  政府承诺保护租户们的利益。
• The first duty of any government must be to protect the interests of the taxpayers
  任何政府的首要职责都必须是保护纳税人的利益。
• The book inevitably mirrors my own interests and experiences
  这本书不可避免地反映出我个人的喜好与经历。
• The interests of minorities will have to be safeguarded under a new constitution
  新宪法必须能保护少数群体的利益。
• The economy should be organized to serve the interests of all the people
  经济的组织运行应符合所有人的利益。
• The extent to which it helped to promote Britain's broader strategic interests was sometimes questionable
  它对于促进英国获得更广泛的战略利益到底有多大的帮助，这一点有时候值得怀疑。
• Coincident interests with the corporate rich and political directorate are pointed out.
  有人指出这合乎的是公司富豪和政治官员的利益。
• Political and personal ambitions are starting to prevail over economic interests.
  政治抱负和个人野心开始压倒经济利益。
• Men are awake enough to their own interests, who turn a deaf ear to their friends 'distress.
  对朋友的痛苦置若罔闻的人，对个人的利益非常注意。
• There is no conflict of fundamental interests among the third world countries.
  第三世界国家之间没有根本的利害冲突。