interest

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɪn.tɹɛst/|/ˈɪn.t(ə.)ɹɪst/    美 /ˈɪn.tɹɛst/|/ˈɪn.tɚ.ɛst/|/ˈɪn.tɚ.əst/|/ˈɪn.tɹəst/|/ˈɪn.tɚst/|/ˈɪn.t(ə.)ɹest/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. uncountable,usually
    — Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
  2. Any excess over and above an exact equivalent uncountable,usually
    — You shall have your desires with interest
  3. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. uncountable,usually
    — He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
  4. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something. uncountable,usually
    — […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
  5. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor. countable,usually
    — When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest (competing interests).
  6. Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in. countable,usually
    — Lexicography is one of my interests.
  7. Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance. uncountable,usually
    — The Conscience indeed is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest: […]
  8. Injury, or compensation for injury; damages. obsolete,rare,uncountable,usually
    — How can this infinite beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?
  9. The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively. in-plural,often,uncountable,usually
    — the iron interest;  the cotton interest
  10. A genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label. attributive,historical,uncountable,usually
    — By interest films is meant a variety of subjects which cannot be classified under such recognized headings as fiction, travel, or topical. They include wonderful inventions, little known industries, applied art, feats of engineering, and other events capable of effective illustration.
动词 v.
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
    — It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
  2. To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite. impersonal,obsolete,often
    — Oh, rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory; since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel; valued least, / I am his equal.
  3. To cause or permit to share. obsolete
    — The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.

词形变化

interests plural enterest alternative,obsolete interess alternative,obsolete intherest alternative interests present,singular,third-person interesting participle,present interested participle,past interested past enterest alternative,obsolete interess alternative,obsolete intherest alternative

词汇关系

反义词
bore disinterest
下位词
future interest human interest legal interest life interest love interest marine interest place of interest public interest royalty interest self-interest special interest terminable interest undivided interest vested interest working interest
衍生词
conflict of interest interest group interestable interested interesting reinterest

词源

词源 1
From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
词源 2
From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
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