vested

1. 贴身背心;汗衫
   A vest is a piece of underwear which you can wear on the top half of your body in order to keep warm.

in AM, use 美国英语用 undershirt


2. 背心;马甲;坎肩
   A vest is a sleeveless piece of clothing with buttons which people usually wear over a shirt.

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 waistcoat


3. VERB 授予，赋予，给予（权利或责任）
   If something is vested in you, or if you are vested with it, it is given to you as a right or responsibility.
   1. All authority was vested in the woman, who discharged every kind of public duty...
      女性被赋予了所有权力，履行所有公共职责。
   2. The mass media have been vested with significant power as social and political agents in modern developed societies...
      在现代发达社会中，作为社会和政治媒介，大众传媒被赋予了很大的权力。
   3. There's an extraordinary amount of power vested in us.
      我们被授予了巨大的权力。

1. In the 1790s Tom Paine taught plebeian radicals that mankind would live in harmony were it not for the vested interest which princes, diplomats and soldiers had in promoting wars to enrich themselves.
   汤姆·潘恩在18世纪90年代教育平民激进分子时论述到，如果不是为了实现王公、外交官和士兵借发起战争而使自己富有的潜在利益，人类本会生活在和谐之中。
2. Vested interests were left untouched.
   既得利益未受影响。
3. All authority was vested in the woman, who discharged every kind of public duty
   女性被赋予了所有权力，履行所有公共职责。
4. The mass media have been vested with significant power as social and political agents in modern developed societies
   在现代发达社会中，作为社会和政治媒介，大众传媒被赋予了很大的权力。
5. There's an extraordinary amount of power vested in us.
   我们被授予了巨大的权力。
6. Only those with vested interests in the current system could ignore the need for change
   只有那些在当前的体制中有既得利益的人才会忽略改革的必要性。
7. The administration has no vested interest in proving whether public schools were good or bad.
   在证明公立学校好坏方面，行政部门不存在既得利益。
8. We have no vested interest in this respect.
   我们在这方面没有既得利益。
9. He has vested this committee with certain power.
   他已授予这个委员会某种特定的权力。
10. But there is fierce political opposition to these reforms, which challenge the privileges of powerful vested interests.
    但针对这些挑战强大既得利益特权的改革，政治上的反对非常激烈。
11. I understand the vested interests of those with houses in or near the green belts.
    我理解那些在绿化带之内或附近拥有住房的居民的既得利益。
12. With the man vested with the responsibility of proving my innocence.
    我和那个需要证明我清白的人之间不断恶化的关系。
13. We, all of us, have a vested interest in keeping the game going.
    我们所有的人对继续这游戏都是既得利益者。
14. Investment bankers themselves have a vested interest in not blowing up their firms.
    投资银行家们自己的既得利益不允许他们毁了自己的公司。
15. Labour and product market regulations have also to be aligned with best practice, not national vested interests.
    劳动力和产品市场的法规还必须与最佳实践、而非国家既得利益相一致。
16. Protect public health policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry.
    防止公共卫生政策受烟草业的商业和其它既得利益的影响；
17. "Everyone eats, and everyone has a vested interest in this," he said.
    “每个人都需要吃东西，并且这也是每个人都应有的既得利益。”他说。
18. To do all this means taking on trade unions and other vested interests.
    要完成这些意味着同工会和其他既得利益者的对抗。
19. Foreign businesses have a vested interest in keeping markets open and trade flowing.
    外国企业在保持市场开放和贸易流动方面有着既定利益。
20. Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests.
    不要听信这些既得利益者的诡辩。
21. Because people in new zealand, they have vested interest in all of this.
    因为新西兰人对这幕戏都很感兴趣。
22. They often merely serve the needs and vested interests of the wealthy landowners.
    它们往往只为那些有钱的地主们的既得利益和需要服务。
23. Taking on regulators and the vested interests of taxi companies around the world will be expensive.
    要对付世界各地的监管者和出租车公司既得利益将是代价高昂的。
24. By the power vested in me by God and the state of new york.
    根据上天和纽约州法律赋予我的权力。
25. She had a vested interest in seeing the project fail.
    让这计划失败是和她本人利害攸关的。
26. The Greek political landscape is ingrained with vested interests, endemic kleptocracy and bribery.
    既得利益、地方盗贼统治和贿赂在希腊政治格局中根深蒂固。
27. All federal legislative powers are vested in the Congress of the United States.
    在美国所有联邦立法权力都授予了国会。
28. To implement the concept will require restricting vested interest groups and effective law enforcement, researchers and legislators said.
    研究人员和立法人士均表示，为了践行（包容性增长）这一理念，就需要限制既得利益集团，并促成各项法律的有效实施。
29. These guys all had vested interests; it was kind of a country club.
    这些人都有既得利益；这有点像乡村俱乐部。
30. Those reforms will adversely affect vested interests, particularly in local government and state-owned enterprises.
    这些改革措施将会对既得利益者造成冲击，尤其是地方政府和国有企业。

adj

1. fixed and absolute and without contingency
   1. a vested right