If a company divests, it sells some of the things it owns — a factory, a smaller company, shares, land — so that it no longer holds them. The picture underneath is “taking the coat off”: the business is stripping itself of something it used to wear.

If a company divests如果一家公司divest撤資 it sells some of the things it owns代表它把自己擁有的一些東西賣掉 a factory, a smaller company, shares, land工廠、一家較小的公司、股份、土地 so that it no longer holds them好讓自己不再持有它們 The picture underneath is "taking the coat off"背後的畫面是把外套脫掉 the business is stripping itself of something it used to wear這家公司正在卸下它原本穿在身上的東西

This is a formal, newspaper-and-boardroom word, not what you say when you sell your bike to a friend. Activists also use it: if they ask a university to divest from oil, they mean sell those shares and stop putting money there.

This is a formal, newspaper-and-boardroom word這是個正式的字，出現在報紙和董事會裡 not what you say when you sell your bike to a friend不是你把腳踏車賣給朋友時會用的字 Activists also use it社運人士也會用它 if they ask a university to divest from oil如果他們要求大學divest from oil從石油撤資 they mean sell those shares and stop putting money there意思是賣掉那些股份，不再把錢放進去

You may still meet the older, wider use divest yourself of — get rid of a title, a duty, or (rarely now) clothes. In company talk, though, it almost always means selling assets or pulling investment out.

You may still meet the older, wider use divest yourself of你可能還會遇到比較舊、比較廣的用法divest yourself of get rid of a title, a duty, or (rarely now) clothes擺脫一個頭銜、一項責任，或現在很少見的衣服 In company talk, though不過在公司用語裡 it almost always means selling assets or pulling investment out它幾乎都是指出售資產或撤出投資