n. 資產(chǎn);寶貴的人材;有益的品質(zhì);[經(jīng)] 財產(chǎn);有利條件 (一項)財物;資產(chǎn)(asset的名詞復(fù)數(shù));(商店、破產(chǎn)者等的)財產(chǎn);遺產(chǎn);有價值的人或物
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英文詞源
assets (n.)
1530s, "sufficient estate," from Anglo-French asetz (singular), from Old French assez (11c.) "sufficiency, satisfaction; compensation," noun use of adverb meaning "enough, sufficiently; very much, a great deal," from Vulgar Latin *ad satis "to sufficiency," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + satis "enough" (see sad).
Beginning as a legal term, "sufficient estate" (to satisfy debts and legacies), it passed into general use; meaning "any property that theoretically can be converted to ready money" is from 1580s. Asset is a 19c. artificial singular. Asset stripping attested from 1972.
雙語例句
1. Under these laws, he said, Mr. Rice's assets could have been frozen.