Picture leaning in toward something because it matters to you — your attention is pulled in, you want to know more, you have a stake in it. The Latin root interest literally meant 'it makes a difference (to you), it concerns you'. So two big families branch from one root: the pull on your attention (curiosity, a hobby, a fascinating thing) and the stake you hold (a share you own, an advantage that is yours, and even interest on money — the extra owed because the loan concerns both sides).
From the word’s history
Latin interesse = inter ('between') + esse ('to be'): literally 'to be between, to make a difference, to concern'. In Roman law id quod interest was 'the difference owed' as compensation — the bridge from 'what concerns you' to the financial sense of interest (money owed for the use of money), recorded from the 1520s.
拉丁文 interesse ＝ inter（在…之間）＋ esse（存在）：字面就是「介於其中、造成差別、與你相關」。羅馬法裡的 id quod interest 指「應補償的差額」——這正是從「與你相關的事」通往金融義「利息」（為借用金錢而多付的錢）的橋樑，金融義約於 1520 年代見於記載。
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原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
interestnoun/ˈɪn.tɹɛst/
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businessfinanceThe price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
- Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
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businessfinanceAny excess over and above an exact equivalent
- You shall have your desires with interest
- 3
A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
- He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
- I have a lot of interest in doing online coding.
- 4
Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way.
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Advantage, welfare, or something that serves it.
- The whole difference comes down to this, that Trotsky believed himself to 'represent the historical interests of the proletariat', while Stalin believed that he, Stalin, did so.
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An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
- When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest (competing interests).
- I have business interests in South Africa.
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Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
- Lexicography is one of my interests.
- Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
- 8
Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
- The Conscience indeed is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest: […]
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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obsoleterareInjury, or compensation for injury; damages.
- How can this infinite beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?
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The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
- the iron interest; the cotton interest
- The ‘Railway Interest’ in Parliament constituted a very powerful lobby at this time [mid to late nineteenth century]. It was pledged to put the railway case forward in all matters involving that industry that came before Parliament. This body of MPs was composed of men who were nearly all railway directors or major shareholders. Their influence waned in the early twentieth century but earlier they formed a phalanx of robust opposition to just about every proposal for government regulation of matters pertaining to railways.
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historicalA genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label.
- By interest films is meant a variety of subjects which cannot be classified under such recognized headings as fiction, travel, or topical. They include wonderful inventions, little known industries, applied art, feats of engineering, and other events capable of effective illustration.
- The arrangements made ensured that the total cost of censorship could be kept down to one-fifth of a penny per foot of film censored (and even one-tenth of a penny per foot in cases of Topical, Travel, Interest and Educational Films).
interestverb/ˈɪn.tɹɛst/
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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
- It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
- Action films don't really interest me.
- 2
obsoleteTo be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
- Oh, rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory; since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel; valued least, / I am his equal.
- 3
obsoleteTo cause or permit to share.
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。