assets

英美

assets (n.): 1530s, "sufficient estate," from Anglo-French asetz (singular), from Old French assez (11c.) "sufficiency, satisfaction; compensation," noun use of adverb meaning "enough, sufficiently; very much, a great deal," from Vulgar Latin *ad satis "to sufficiency," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + satis "enough" (see sad).

Beginning as a legal term, "sufficient estate" (to satisfy debts and legacies), it passed into general use; meaning "any property that theoretically can be converted to ready money" is from 1580s. Asset is a 19c. artificial singular. Asset stripping attested from 1972.

1. Under these laws, he said, Mr. Rice's assets could have been frozen.: 他说根据这些法规，赖斯先生的资产可能已经被冻结了。

2. Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets.: 巴西称其宪法禁止个人占有能源资产。

3. They must prove they own £250,000 of realisable assets.: 他们必须证明拥有25万英镑的可变现财产。

4. The company lists its current assets at $56.9 million.: 该公司列明其流动资产为5,690万美元。

5. The company closed down operations and began liquidating its assets in January.: 公司停止了各项业务，于1月份开始变卖资产。