小词详解 | divest

divest 英 [daɪˈvest] 美 [daɪˈvest]

• In a further reflection of the restrained mood, some serial acquirers have gone into reverse, divesting or spinning off assets.
  一些连环收购者已开始反其道而行之，出让或者剥离资产，进一步反映出当下理性克制的情绪。
  ——《经济学人》
• A week later, he issued a separate executive order giving ByteDance 90 days to divest from its American assets and any data that TikTok had gathered in the United States.
  一周后，他发布了另一项行政命令，让字节跳动在90天内剥离其在美国的资产，以及 TikTok 在美国收集的任何数据。
  ——《纽约时报》

• 要求取消王室现存宪法权力的运动愈演愈烈。但三位候选人都对此问题持骑墙观望态度。
  There is a growing movement to divest the monarchy of its remaining constitutional power. But all three candidates straddled on the problem.

• 他脱去了夹克衫，然后给他情意绵绵的恋人一通狂吻。
  He divested himself of his jacket and then smothered his tender lover with kisses.
• 该迎宾员生病后便给解除了许多责任。
  After her illness the usher was divested of much of her responsibility.

• 该行将倒闭的公司打算出售其盈利较差的业务。
  The moribund company is divesting its less profitable business operations.
• 公司正在处理掉它的部分资产，并朝着更高价值的服务转向。
  The company is divesting itself of some of its assets and pivoting towards higher-value services.

Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.
艾博特小姐转而从她粗壮的腿上，解下那条必不可少的带子。

• deprive: prevent (a person or place) from having or using something
• strip: deprive someone of (rank, power, or property)
• relieve: used ironically to indicate that someone has been deprived of something