n.代表；利益；方面

The agent spoke on behalf of his principal. 代理人代表他的委托人說(shuō)話。

On behalf of my colleagues and myself I thank you. 我代表我的同事和我本人向你表示感謝。

He agreed to testify on behalf of the accused man. 他同意為被告作證。

I put up the proposal on your behalf. 我是為你的利益才提出這個(gè)建議的。

I made all these troubles in your behalf. 我是為了你才找這么多麻煩的。

I intervened on her behalf to try to get the decision changed. 我為她力爭(zhēng)，以求改變決定。

They threatened to become distressed sellers of large volumes of debt securities where they had been the biggest investors or had held assets on behalf of others. 它們威脅稱，有可能被迫拋售大量債券，它們要么是這些債券的最大投資者，要么代表其它方面持有這些資產(chǎn)。

behalf的意思是“代表,利益”,作“利益”解時(shí)表示“為了…的利益”，在英式用法中常用on behalf of...,在美式用法中常用in behalf of...。