Picture money you deliberately do not spend today: you hand it over to a business, a flat, some shares — and you leave it sitting there. It has not gone; it is parked inside something so that it can grow, and you expect to get it back later, bigger. Invest always has that shape: something valuable goes in now, and the return comes afterwards.
From the word’s history
'Invest' entered English in the late 14th century meaning 'to clothe someone in the robes of an office', from Latin investire 'to clothe in, cover, surround' (in- 'in' + vestire 'to dress' — the same root as vest). The money sense is attested from the 1610s in the East Indies trade, probably taken from Italian investire, on the idea of giving your capital a new form the way robes give a person one.
invest 在 14 世紀末進入英文時的意思是「為某人穿上官職的袍服」，來自拉丁文 investire「給…穿上、包覆」（in-「進入」＋ vestire「穿衣」，和 vest 背心同源）。金錢的用法從 1610 年代的東印度貿易開始有紀錄，可能是從義大利文 investire 借來的，取的是「把資本換上一個新的形體」這個想法——就像袍服讓一個人換上新的身分。
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原始詞典資料15 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。
investverb詞源 1/ɪnˈvɛst/
- 1
To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
- We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
- The authors predicted that when believers were deeply invested in a world view that had social support, believers would maintain their beliefs even when actual events disproved their worldview.
- 2
datedTo clothe or wrap (with garments).
- He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
- 3
obsoleteTo put on (clothing).
- Cannot find one this girdle to invest!
- 4
To envelop, wrap, cover.
- Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes
- 5
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
- 6
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
- 7
To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
- Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]
- I do invest you jointly with my power.
- 8
To formally give (power or authority).
- For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
To surround, accompany, or attend.
- The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it.
- For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.
- 10
To lay siege to.
- to invest a town
- When she related that a band of fanatics, after robbing a church of all its silver-plate, and burning the adjacent vicarage, drunk with their success, had invested the Castle, and cried aloud for ‘the man’ to be brought unto them, that he might be hewed to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal—[…]her young hearers felt a deep stirring of the heart,—a proud yet mellowed elation that never yet was felt by the reader of a written history, though its pages were as legitimate as any sanctioned by the royal licenser at Madrid.
- 11
To make investments.
- 12
engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesTo prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
- 13
To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.
- From early on in his career, Zola's work as a critic revealed just how heavily he was invested in the literary “dream of stone.”
- She knew from watching him grow up that he didn't let that many people too close to him, but once he did, he was invested in that relationship.
- 14
governmentpoliticsTo inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.
- The outcome also makes it very difficult for Feijóo to become the next PM, because he does not have the support to be invested as such, unless there are changes in the initial positions of key players such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).
investnoun詞源 2/ɪnˈvɛst/
- 1
climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.
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