investments

investments — 名詞

1. amounts of money, time, or effort that someone puts into a project, business, or

1.名詞B1
釋義

投資

投入金錢或心力以求回報的款項或行動

amounts of money, time, or effort that someone puts into a project, business, or activity in the hope of gaining a benefit, profit, or other valuable result later on

例句

Ada moved most of her investments into safer government bonds last year.

Ada 去年把大部分投資轉到較安全的政府公債上。

collocation: move investments into [asset type]

The Watanabe family lost a lot of money on bad property investments during the 2008 crash.

Watanabe 一家在 2008 年金融危機中因為不當的房地產投資損失慘重。

collocation: bad / risky investments

同義詞
  • holdings

    specifically the assets (shares, property) someone owns, not the act of buying them

  • stakes

    shares of ownership in a business, usually with influence implied

  • contributions

    wider sense — money or effort given, not always expecting financial return

反義詞
  • divestments

    the opposite act — selling off assets rather than acquiring them

  • withdrawals

    removing money from an account or fund, undoing an investment

文法句型

investments in [thing/area]

make investments

investments + return/profit/loss

用法筆記

Plural form covers both the act of investing repeatedly and the specific assets or efforts themselves; choose 'investment' (singular) when naming a single deal or amount, and 'investments' when grouping several together or talking about a portfolio.

常見錯誤

❌She has many investment in real estate.
✅She has many investments in real estate.
💡when several separate deals or assets are meant, the countable plural 'investments' is required.
❌He made investments to the start-up.
✅He made investments in the start-up.
💡the preposition is 'in', not 'to', when naming the thing or area receiving the money.