首页英语词典interestinterest的意思

interest

英 ['ɪnt(ə)rɪst] 美['ɪntrəst]

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近义词concern

反义词

n. 兴趣，爱好；利息；趣味；同行
vt. 使……感兴趣；引起……的关心；使……参与

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词态变化

复数: interests;第三人称单数: interests;过去式: interested;过去分词: interested;现在分词: interesting;

中文词源

interest 兴趣，利益，利息

来自拉丁语interesse,关心，关切，来自inter-,在内，在中间，相互，-esse,存在，是，词源同is,essence,entity.即内在的利益，兴趣等。后用于经济学指利息，以与高利贷(usury)相区别。

英英释意

1. a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something;: "an interest in music"

2. the power of attracting or holding one's interest (because it is unusual or exciting etc.);: "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room"

3. a reason for wanting something done;: "for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest"

4. a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed;: "how much interest do you pay on your mortgage?"

5. a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly);: "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits"

6. (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something;: "they have interests all over the world"; "a stake in the company's future"

7. (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims;: "the iron interests stepped up production"

英文词源

interest: interest: [15] The Latin verb interesse meant literally ‘be between’ (it was a compound of inter ‘between’ and esse ‘be’). It was used metaphorically for ‘be of concern, be important, matter’, and appears to have been borrowed into Anglo-Norman as a noun, meaning ‘what one has a legal concern in or share of’. English took this over in the 14th century as interesse, but it gradually changed over the next hundred years or so into interest, mainly due to the influence of Old French interest ‘damage’, which came from the third person present singular form of the Latin verb.

The main modern sense ‘curiosity’ developed towards the end of the 18th century.
interest (n.): mid-15c., "legal claim or right; concern; benefit, advantage;" earlier interesse (late 14c.), from Anglo-French interesse "what one has a legal concern in," from Medieval Latin interesse "compensation for loss," noun use of Latin interresse "to concern, make a difference, be of importance," literally "to be between," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + esse "to be" (see essence).

Compare German Interesse, from the same Medieval Latin source. Form in English influenced 15c. by French interest "damage," from Latin interest "it is of importance, it makes a difference," third person singular present of interresse. Financial sense of "money paid for the use of money lent" (1520s) earlier was distinguished from usury (illegal under Church law) by being in reference to "compensation due from a defaulting debtor." Meaning "curiosity" is first attested 1771. Interest group is attested from 1907; interest rate by 1868.
interest (v.): "to cause to be interested," c. 1600, earlier interesse (1560s), from the noun (see interest (n.)). Perhaps also from or influenced by interess'd, past participle of interesse.

同义词辨析

advantage, benefit, interest, favour, profit, gain

这些名词均有"利益，好处"之意。

advantage：指因某方面占优势或利用某机会以及对方弱点而获得利益与好处。

benefit：普通用词，指通过正当手段从物质或精神方面得到的任何好处或利益。

interest：作"利益"解时，多用复数形式，既可指集团、群体的利益，又可指个人的利益。

favour：指在竞争中获得的advantage,也可指在狭隘的个人利益。

profit：着重收益，尤指从物质、钱财等方面获得的利益。

gain：指获得的物质利益，也暗示不损坏他人利益而得的无形好处。

amuse, entertain, interest, please

这些动词均含有"使人娱乐，消遣"之意。

amuse：指使人通过注意某些有趣或悦人的事物而消遣，着重使人愉快的效果。

entertain：指通过给他人快乐感的消遣活动，使自己或他人从单调中解脱出来。

interest：普通用词，指出于任何原因使人兴奋或对某事物保持好奇心或注意力，侧重引起兴趣或注意。

please：多指愿望、兴趣得到满足后产生的强烈满意情绪。

考试真题

Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists ( ' , 神经科学专家) hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives.

Leah's interest in yoga prompted her to make a firm decision to reshape her life.

It didn't take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects ( ' , including Veiseh) have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.

However, it was another interest that led Leah to radically reinvent herself.

Feeling the need to change, Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interests and developing new capabilities.

As she explored new interests and developed new potentials, Leah felt powerful internally.

We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

The field of their special interest.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

Kids' interest.

It stirs up their interest in life.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

Then students select adviser based on shared academic interests.

When turning work into a game, it is necessary to understand what makes games interesting.

The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting, says Reimann.

Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.

It is in no one's interest to keep a large segment of the population on the margins of society.

It is an old city with many sites of historical interest.

After new legislation demanded their removal from the roads, a low interest loan scheme was set up with three Egyptian banks so drivers could buy new cars.

All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.

But to really harness their motivation is to build upon their interest.

In academic circles, people take aging research as just an interest area where they can try to develop interventions.

In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders—he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.

It didn't take long for magazines and documentary filmmakers to come to understand her "total recall", and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects including Veise have since come forward and contacted the team at the University

It is in no one's interest to keep a large segment of the population on the margins of society.

It seems, too, that I'm part of a national renewal of interest in needle and other handicrafts.

It's a place where you get to make things based on your interest and on what you're learning to do.

Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives.

One of our goals is to get items of high research value or interest to the public online.

The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causes identified by Leslie.

While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

They were versed in literature and interested in art.

They developed an interest in the origin of modern art forms.

The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.

Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.

Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

It reflects a shift of their interest in consumer goods.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

Not many young people eligible for voting are interested in local or national elections these days.

It is fine and healthy for teens to cultivate their personal interests, and it is good news when young people enjoy harmonious relations with their family and friends.

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

A place of interest to the educated people.

The prime minister denied there was a connection between his news adviser's outside interests and the change in legislative programme.

The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

In addition to many senior officials from the Federal Trade and Federal Communications commissions, this year's list of policy makers also includes appearances from Transportation Curran, the Accenture analyst, said that increased government interest in the show makes sense as technology becomes a larger part of our lives.

Cameron would still be hooked on the interests of big tobacco companies.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

If children are turning to athletes as role models, it’s in their best interest if their idols are consistent.

And it’s interesting that many of them mention the element of luck.

They may be involved in a conflict of interest.

It is in the interest of common Americans.

It arouses students' interest in things around them.

A few psychology journals have created incentives to increase interest in reproducible science—for example,by affixing an ‘open-data' badge to articles that clearly state where data are available.

At the same time, we recognize that children might have an interest in entering adulthood free to create their own digital footprint.

BrightLine itV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

Curran, the Accenture analyst, said that increased government interest in the show makes sense as technology becomes a larger part of our lives.

International interest in the therapeutic qualities of the Mediterranean diet began back in the late 1950s, when medical researchers started to link the occurrence of heart disease with diet.

These emotions included interest, joy, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, and fear.

This mood switch made no difference to the three-month-olds; but for the nine-month-olds, it was enough to renew their interest and they started looking again in the direction of the face.

Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

After the trip, my family became quite interested in camping.

And now when I look at it, I think her presence in the photo is what makes the image interesting.

And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before?

And you're interested in this job?

Anything interesting in the paper today, dear?

Apple days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards.

As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

But their interest soon wears off and by January those same toys can be found put away in the basement.

California condors attract researchers' interest because they almost died out in the 1980s.

California condors attract researchers' interest because they had to be bred in the wild.

Chimps seldom care about others' interests.

Compliment (赞美) the other person to make him or her feel comfortable, and ask questions to show interest.

Ecology. I'm interested in the relationship between humans and nature.

Explain why she was interested in the computer.

Find an issue you are interested in and learn more.

Find chances to do volunteer work that interests you.

For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge, this guide is a time-saving, one-stop....

Having interesting things to think about also helps.

He has a strong interest in classical Chinese literary works.

Her interest in Shelly-Ann's quick profit.

Her mother was reading it with interest.

However, when something did interest me, I could become absorbed.

I decided to play with him with only one toy for as long as it would keep his interest.

I wasn't sure if you'd be interested.

If you studied pictures that ancient people left on rock walls and you tried to determine their meaning, you would not detect a deep interest in romance among the artists.

In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest.

In theory, they should live by the French law is often ignored or unknown, thus making them into an interesting area of "lawlessness" in the world.

It took three years to complete and was built using an interesting method.

Knowledgeable guides will entertain you with the most interesting stories about presidents, congress, memorials, and parks.

Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

Look, here are some interesting ones.

Lose the interest to continue learning.

Make decisions in the best interests' of their own.

Move on to the next person if someone tells you she is not interested.

My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word "poems" appeared in big, hot pink letters.

On the last day of our week-long stay, we were invited to attend a private concert on a beautiful farm on the north shore under the stars, listening to musicians and meeting interesting locals.

Once we have a common interest, a friendship can begin.

Or perhaps you are the only one who is interested in listening to the ballgame.

Recently, she has shown great interest in photo exhibits which feature young artists with islamic or Chinese background.

Rideout's research interest lies in electric engineering.

She needs to find something interesting to do.

She wasn't interested in the show.

She will tell us about those of greatest interest.

Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment of a particularly interesting story.

Students interested in working for the athletic department should contact the athletic coordinator at their respective campuses.

Take her for a walk, and she had no interest in Joe's blood counts or bone marrow test results.

The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in alaska, they left dawson city as quickly as they had come.

The exhibition had record attendance, showing that there is huge interest in Chinese influences.

The real museum lacked enough artwork to interest her.

The world is full of half-filled stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone's passing interest.

Then what sports are you interested in?

There are a few here that might interest us.

They are both passionate about acting and interested in people.

They listened with great interest and then enthusiastically joined in grand conversations about Harry's adventures.

They're the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of US used to add visual interest to our rooms.

This book explores the musical interest and needs of children in their daily lives.

This isn't as hard as it sounds, and it is far better than any other method because you improve your vocabulary while reading an interesting piece of literature.

This sounds very interesting! It's on South Street.

To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their interest in the work.

Traveling along the old silk road is an interesting and rewarding experience.

Uniforms can be useful in unexpected ways, a school in ireland has introduced an interesting new uniform.

We both passionate about acting, which comes from us being so interested in people.

We use small talk to find common interests.

We will never know if we are interested or talented in a subject if we don't try it.

We will never know if we are interested or talented in a subject without trying it.

Whatever your age or interests, buxton has something to see or do to make your visit truly memorable.

What's particularly interesting is the attitude various cities have toward dubanchet's cause.

When the time came to make the final decision for a course, I decided to apply for the one that reflected my interest.

When they were free from work, they invited us to local events and let us know of an interesting competition to watch, together with the story behind it.

With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown.

An interest in the relationship between the function of society and culture became a major theme in European, and especially British, anthropology.

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility form special interests.

To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music.

Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

Prior knowledge and interest influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

The US$3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March.

Aerial surveys locate general areas of interest or larger buried features, such as ancient buildings or fields.

How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it.

Complex international, economic, technological and culture change could start to diminish the leading position of English as the language of the world market, and UK interests which enjoy advantage from the breath of English usage would consequently face new pressures.

The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

For a time literature showed no interest in this public stage.

Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests.

But many middle-class occupations-trucking, financial advice, software engineering - have aroused their interest, or soon will.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress-insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress一insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protect

Britain's new rule is a reminder to bankers that society has an interest in their performance, not just for the short term but for the long term.

But many middle-class occupations一trucking, financial advice, software engineering一have aroused their interest, or soon will.

But postal special- interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.

since students and parents expect a college degree to lead a job, it is in the best interest of a school to turn out graduates who are as qualified as possible—or at least appear to be.

That suggests it is in the broader corporate interest to recruit top candidates for increasingly tough jobs.

The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an "important" policy interest, Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rul

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

词组搭配

at interest

(of money borrowed) on the condition that interest is payable

借钱）在支付利息的情况下，在支付利息的条件下

declare an (或 one's) interest

make known one's financial interests in an undertaking before it is discussed

（在所从事之事被讨论前）公开（在此事中的）经济利益

in the interests (或 interest) of something

for the benefit of

为了…的利益，为了…起见

in the interests of security we are keeping the information confidential.
为安全起见我们对此信息保密。

of interest

interesting

有趣的，引起兴趣的

much of it is of interest to historians.
这其中有很多对于历史学家来说是很有趣的。

with interest

with interest charged or paid

付利息的

loans that must be paid back with interest.
须付利息的贷款。

in the interest of 或 in the interests of

To the advantage of; for the sake of

为了…的利益；为了…的缘故

thinking in the interest of the whole family; ate breakfast on the train in the interest of time.
为了整个家着想；为了节省时间而在火车上吃早餐

实用场景例句

to feel/have/show/express (an) interest in sth: 对…感到 / 表现出 / 表示关注

Do your parents take an interest in your friends?: 你的父母有兴趣了解你的朋友吗？

By that time I had lost (all) interest in the idea.: 那时我已经对此想法（完全）失去兴趣了。

I watched with interest .: 我兴致勃勃地看着。

As a matter of interest , (= I'd like to know) what time did the party finish?: 我想知道，晚会是什么时间结束的？

Just out of interest , how much did it cost?: 我只是好奇问问，这个花了你多少钱？

There are many places of interest near the city.: 这座城市附近有许多有意思的地方。

The subject is of no interest to me at all.: 我对此课题一点也不感兴趣。

These plants will add interest to your garden in winter.: 这些植物在冬季会给你的花园增添胜景。

Her main interests are music and tennis.: 她的主要爱好是音乐和网球。

He was a man of wide interests outside his work.: 他是个有广泛业余爱好的人。

There has been a lively interest in the elections in the last two weeks...: 近两周来选举受到了热烈关注。

His parents tried to discourage his interest in music, but he persisted...: 他的父母设法打消他对音乐的兴趣,但他始终坚持。

Encourage your child in her interests and hobbies even if they're things that you know little about...: 要鼓励孩子的兴趣爱好，即使你对它们所知甚少。

He developed a wide range of sporting interests as a pupil at Millfield.: 他在米尔菲尔德私立学校上学的时候培养了广泛的运动爱好。

That passage interested me because it seems to parallel very closely what you're doing in the novel...: 那一段引起了我的关注，因为它似乎与你在小说里所采用的手法非常相似。

It may interest you to know that Miss Woods, the housekeeper, witnessed the attack.: 您或许会有兴趣知道管家伍兹小姐目击了袭击过程。

In the meantime I can't interest you in a new car, I suppose?...: 那么我想这时候我不能说服您买辆新车了？

The group wasn't able to interest them in reproducing literature specifically for women.: 这个团体没能说服他们再版专门面向女性的文学作品。

Did those directors act in the best interests of their club?...: 那些董事行事时是以他们俱乐部的最大利益为出发点吗？

The social worker would try to get her to see she was acting against the boy's interests.: 这位社会工作者会设法让她明白她这么做对这个男孩没有好处。

The government accused unnamed 'foreign interests' of inciting the trouble...: 政府不指名地谴责“外国利益集团”煽动骚乱。

He resigned as finance minister only weeks before the election and stood against big-business interests.: 他在大选到来仅几周前辞去了财政部长职务,并抵制大公司利益集团。

Her other business interests include a theme park in Scandinavia and hotels in the West Country.: 她其他的公司股权包括斯堪的纳维亚的一个主题游乐园和英格兰西南部的几家酒店。

...the Hatch family, who controlled large dairy interests...: 掌控大量奶业股权的哈奇家族

The West has an interest in promoting democratic forces in Eastern Europe...: 东欧民主力量的发展与西方国家利害攸关。

Domestic consumers of petroleum products have an interest in a secure source of petroleum products.: 石油产品的国内消费者希望其来源能够获得保障。

Does your current account pay interest?...: 你的活期账户有利息吗？

This is an important step toward lower interest rates.: 这是向较低利率迈出的重要一步。

...a call for all businessmen to work together in the interests of national stability.: 呼吁所有商人为了国家稳定而团结协作