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assets

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  • n. 资产;宝贵的人材;有益的品质;[经] 财产;有利条件 (一项)财物;资产(asset的名词复数);(商店、破产者等的)财产;遗产;有价值的人或物

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英文词源


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.

双语例句


1. Under these laws, he said, Mr. Rice's assets could have been frozen.
他说根据这些法规,赖斯先生的资产可能已经被冻结了。

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2. Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets.
巴西称其宪法禁止个人占有能源资产。

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3. They must prove they own £250,000 of realisable assets.
他们必须证明拥有25万英镑的可变现财产。

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4. The company lists its current assets at $56.9 million.
该公司列明其流动资产为5,690万美元。

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5. The company closed down operations and began liquidating its assets in January.
公司停止了各项业务,于1月份开始变卖资产。

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