Divest
[daɪ'vest;dɪ-] or [daɪ'vɛst]
解释:
(verb.) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); 'The company decided to divest'; 'the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property'; 'There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa'.
(verb.) deprive of status or authority; 'he was divested of his rights and his title'; 'They disinvested themselves of their rights'.
贝拉编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
(v. t.) Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
(v. t.) See Devest.
丹尼斯编辑
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Deprive, strip, dispossess.
录入:保拉
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Disruanate, denude, strip, disrobe, unclothe, disencumber, deprive
ANT:Clothe, robe, invest, shroud, envelop, encumber, indue
校对:拉弗尔斯
解释:
v.t. to strip or deprive of anything.—adj. Divest′ible.—ns. Divest′iture Divest′ment (rare).
凯瑟琳编辑
例句:
- It had come on there, I dare say, a hundred times before, but I could not divest myself of an idea that it MIGHT lead to some result now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- With this apostrophe Mr Fledgeby appropriately proceeded to divest himself of his Turkish garments, and invest himself with Christian attire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was the universal reason divested of a human personality. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- When divested of metaphor, a straight line or a square has no more to do with right and justice than a crooked line with vice. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- He had divested himself of his brown paper parcel, but had made no alteration in his attire, and was, if possible, more loquacious than ever. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- And soon afterwards, divesting himself only of his shoes and coat, laid himself down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
整理:辛克莱