流逝汉英词典

interest

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 ['ɪnt(ə)rɪst]
  • 美式音标 [ˈɪntrɪst, -tərɪst, -ˌtrɛst]
  • 国际音标 ['intrist, 'intər-]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 興趣，愛好；利息；利益；趣味；同行
  • vt. 使……感興趣；引起……的關心；使……蓡與

词源解说

  • 16世紀初期進入英語，直接源自盎格魯法語的interesse，意爲與某人有法定關聯的事物；最初源自中世紀拉丁文語的interesse，意爲補償（損失）。

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    interesting：有趣的；引起興趣的，令人關注的。
    interested：感興趣的；有權益的；有成見的。
  • adv性質的同根詞
    interestingly：有趣地。
  • v性質的同根詞
    interested：使…感興趣（interest的過去分詞）。

用法辨析

    n. (名詞)

  • interest用作名詞的基本意思是“興趣”,指對某種事物的愛好,也可指感興趣的事,既可用作可數名詞,也可用作不可數名詞。
  • interest也可表示“趣味,引起注意之性質”,是不可數名詞,其後常接介詞in。
  • interest也可作“愛好,嗜好”“利益”解,是可數名詞。作“利益”解時常用複數形式。
  • interest還可作“利息”解,是不可數名詞。
  • interest還可表示“所有權”“股份”,可用於單數形式,也可用於複數形式。

    • v. (動詞)

  • interest的基本意思是“使某人産生興趣”,還可作“引起…的意願”解,其主語可以是人,也可以是物或事。
  • interest是及物動詞,接名詞或代詞作賓語。動詞賓語爲sb 時,表示“使(某人)對…感興趣”,動詞賓語爲oneself時,表示主語本身“對…感興趣”。
  • interest後常接in,表示“對…感興趣”。
  • interest的過去分詞interested和現在分詞interesting都可用作形容詞,在句中作表語或定語。

英汉例句

    用作名詞 (n.)

  • Nothing could awake his interest.
    什麽也不能引起他的興趣。

    • 用作動詞 (v.)

    用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

  • That book may interest you.
    那本書會讓你感興趣的。

词组短语

    用作名詞 (n.)

    動詞+～

  • absorb interest 引起興趣
  • awake an interest in 引起對…的興趣
  • calculate interest 計算利息
  • capture sb 's interest 抓住某人的興趣〔愛好〕
  • catch interest 吸引

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (INVOLVEMENT) the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more about something
  • (ADVANTAGE) something that brings advantages to or affects someone or something
  • (MONEY) money that is charged by a bank or other financial organization for borrowing money
  • (LEGAL RIGHT) an involvement or a legal right, usually relating to a business or possessions
  • If someone or something interests you, you want to give that person or thing your attention and discover more about him, her, or it.

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you have an interest in something, you want to learn or hear more about it.
  • Your interests are the things that you enjoy doing.
  • If something interests you, it attracts your attention so that you want to learn or hear more about it or continue doing it.
  • If you are trying to persuade someone to buy or do something, you can say that you are trying to interest them in it.
  • If something is in the interests of a particular person or group, it will benefit them in some way.
  • You can use interests to refer to groups of people who you think use their power or money to benefit themselves.
  • A person or organization that has an interest in an area, a company, a property or in a particular type of business owns stock in it.
  • If a person, country, or organization has an interest in a possible event or situation, they want that event or situation to happen because they are likely to benefit from it.
  • Interest is extra money that you receive if you have invested a sum of money. Interest is also the extra money that you pay if you have borrowed money or are buying something on credit.
  • &rarrsee also interested , interesting , compound interest , self-interest , vested interest
  • If you do something in the interests of a particular result or situation, you do it in order to achieve that result or maintain that situation.
  • to have someone's interests at heart&rarrsee heart