assets

英美

n. 資產(chǎn)；寶貴的人材；有益的品質；[經(jīng)] 財產(chǎn)；有利條件（一項）財物；資產(chǎn)（asset的名詞復數(shù)）；（商店、破產(chǎn)者等的）財產(chǎn)；遺產(chǎn)；有價值的人或物

CET4TEM4中高頻詞擴展詞匯

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.

1. Under these laws, he said, Mr. Rice's assets could have been frozen.: 他說根據(jù)這些法規(guī)，賴斯先生的資產(chǎn)可能已經(jīng)被凍結了。

2. Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets.: 巴西稱其憲法禁止個人占有能源資產(chǎn)。

3. They must prove they own ￡250,000 of realisable assets.: 他們必須證明擁有25萬英鎊的可變現(xiàn)財產(chǎn)。

4. The company lists its current assets at $56.9 million.: 該公司列明其流動資產(chǎn)為5,690萬美元。

5. The company closed down operations and began liquidating its assets in January.: 公司停止了各項業(yè)務，于1月份開始變賣資產(chǎn)。