| 词组 | invest |
| 释义 | invest There are two different verbs invest, the first preceding the second by some 80 years (1533; 1613). The earlier invest, which comes directly from the Latin invest ire, is usually used with with: • During a few years the book was invested with a significance ... which its ... merits could not justify — Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1937 • ... Meredith showed an extraordinary power for investing brainwork with imagery —C. Day Lewis, The Poetic Image, 1947 • ... invest a prelate with the symbols of his office — Herbert Agar, Declaration of Faith, 1952 • ... which permitted the Victorians to invest medieval art and architecture with Victorian values — Janet Malcolm, New Yorker, 18 Sept. 1971 When this invest is used with by, the verb is usually in the form of the past participle: • He was one of 30 officials, courtiers and dignitaries invested by the queen —Springfield (Mass.) Union, 23 June 1953 • Dukes were originally invested by girding them with a sword, as earls had long been invested —Chambers's Encyclopaedia, new ed., 1950 • The western base of Big Round Top was invested by the Confederates —American Guide Series: Pennsylvania, 1940 When the second verb invest, which comes through the Italian invest ire, is used with a preposition, it is usually in: • Pension plans are less heavily invested in stocks than generally believed —George Anders, Wall Street Jour., 18 Dec. 1981 • The refugees themselves are willing to invest their suffering as well as their time in the cause —John Cogley, Commonweal, 25 Dec. 1953 • One might say one invests one's identity in one's memory —Elizabeth Bowen, Saturday Rev., 27 May 1950 • ... the superficial adoption of this tradition by one who was unwilling to invest in its authentic vitality —George Steiner, Times Literary Supp., 27 June 1980 |
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