vest

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n. 背心, 汗背心 vt. 使穿衣服, 授予 vi. 穿衣服, 归属

发音

US /vɛst/

词形变化

vests 复数 vests vested vestest vesteth vesting vests 三单 vesting 现在分词 vested 过去式 vested 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

背心;汗衫

a piece of underwear without sleeves that you wear on the top half of your body

动词

授予;使穿衣

动词

归属;穿衣服

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

    坎肩

    背心

    加拿大 美国
  2. 2.

    A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.

    背心

  3. 3.

    A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.

  4. 4.

    Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.

    马甲

    䘥仔

  5. 5.

    A vestment.

  6. 6.

    Clothing generally; array; garb.

    Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.

  7. 7.

    A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.

    古体
v.
  1. 1.

    To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

  2. 2.

    To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.

    to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death

  3. 3.

    To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.

    The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.

    , Book I Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.

  4. 4.

    To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.

    法律

    to vest a person with an estate

    an estate is vested in possession

  5. 5.

    (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.

    不及物 法律

    Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.

  6. 6.

    To become vested, to become permanent.

    不及物 商务 金融

    My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.

    2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.

  7. 7.

    To invest; to put.

    废旧

    to vest money in goods, land, or houses

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词源

Derived from French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.

来源:wiktionary