as.set

asset的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈæsˌet]
KK音标发音： [ˈæsˌɛt]

asset的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or a resource:
资源，优点：有用的或有价值的品德，人或事物；优势或资财：

An agreeable personality is a great asset; proved herself an asset to the company.
宜人的性格是一个很大的优点；证明她自己是公司的难得之材

2. A valuable item that is owned.
资产：一件有价值的所有物

3. A spy working in his or her own country and controlled by the enemy:
间谍：为敌人所控制在他或她自己国家工作的间谍：

“One of our assets working out of Leningrad managed to take a drive out of town”(Frederick Forsyth)
“我们在列宁格勒工作的一个间谍能设法驾车出城”(弗雷德里克·福赛思)

4. assets
assets

5. Accounting The entries on a balance sheet showing all properties, tangible and intangible, and claims against others that may be applied, directly or indirectly, to cover the liabilities of a person or business, such as cash, stock, and goodwill.
【会计学】 资产负债：资产负债表总帐目，表明所有有形资产和无形资产，以及可直接或间接对他人财物提出所有权要求的，以偿付某人或企业的债务，如现金，原料和信誉

6. The entire property owned by a person, especially a bankrupt, that can be used to settle debts.
负债资产：某人尤指破产者所拥有的可以用来抵债的全部财产

asset的词源：

7. Back-formation from English assets [sufficient goods to settle a testator's debts and legacies]
源自 英语 assets的逆构词 [足够的物品以结算遗嘱人的债务和遗产]

8. from Anglo-Norman asetz
源自 英法语 asetz

9. from asez [enough]
源自 asez [足够的]

10. from Vulgar Latin *ad satis [to sufficiency]
源自 俗拉丁语 *ad satis [足够]

11. Latin ad- [ad-]
拉丁语 ad- [前缀，表“朝，向”]

12. satis [enough] * see s3-
satis [足够的] *参见 s3-