assets
英美
- n. 資產；寶貴的人材；有益的品質；[經] 財產；有利條件 （一項）財物；資產（asset的名詞復數）；（商店、破產者等的）財產；遺產；有價值的人或物
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.
- 他說根據這些法規，賴斯先生的資產可能已經被凍結了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 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。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. They must prove they own ￡250,000 of realisable assets.
- 他們必須證明擁有25萬英鎊的可變現財產。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The company lists its current assets at $56.9 million.
- 該公司列明其流動資產為5,690萬美元。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The company closed down operations and began liquidating its assets in January.
- 公司停止了各項業務，于1月份開始變賣資產。
來自柯林斯例句