| 正面 | 1042.investment 英 [ɪn'ves(t)m(ə)nt]美 [ɪn'vɛstmənt]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. tend (v.1): a shortening of attend.2. tend (v.2): tend- => tend "move in a certain direction". 伸展到某个方向，但具体是哪个方向不确定，因此后面接to(towards)来指明具体的方向。n. 投资；投入；封锁 例句： 1. Investment could dry up and that could cause the economy to falter.投资可能会中断，而这会引起经济衰退。 investment 投资，投入来自invest,投资，投入。 investment (n.)1590s, "act of putting on vestments" (a sense now found in investiture); later "act of being invested with an office, right, endowment, etc." (1640s); and "surrounding and besieging of a military target" (1811); see invest + -ment. Commercial sense is from 1610s, originally of the finances of the East India Company; general use is from 1740 in the sense of "conversion of money to property in hopes of profit," and by 1837 in the sense "amount of money so invested; property viewed as a vehicle for profit." For evolution of commercial senses, see invest." |