Ally

Vested interests

發佈時間: 2015/05/20

香港地少人多,發展新界勢在必行。丁權是其一要處理的難題。思匯政策研究所公布去年的電話訪問調查,六成受訪者認為要改變丁屋政策,而希望維持此政策的多為有既得利益(vested interests)的新界人。

Vested解「既定的」,vested interests(既得利益)即是指某人或集團獲得法定的某種特別權益。對沒有既得利益的人來說,這特權或不公平,所以vested interests常帶貶義。跟be interested in……(對……感興趣的)一樣,要點出有甚麼vested interests,可以後接介詞in。例句:The villagers have vested interested in disagreeing with the small-house policy review.(他們不同意檢討丁屋政策,因當中有其既得利益。)

常用someone be vested with something指「某人被賦予某種權力或財產等」。例句:Authors are vested with 50 years of copyright.(作者有50年的版權。)He has been vested with the power to deploy people from your department.(他有權調度你部門的人手。)

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