heft

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美

v.  举，举起试测……的重量，重达
n.  重（量）；重要（性）；势力; 大半；大部分; 爱尔兰地方性绵羊慢性消瘦病

过去式：hefted　现在分词：hefting　过去分词：hefted　第三人称单数：hefts　

BNC.36581 / COCA.16811

英英释义

noun

• the property of being large in mass
  Synonym:heftinessmassivenessponderousnessponderosity

verb

• lift or elevate
  Synonym:heaveheave upheft up
• test the weight of something by lifting it

双语例句

• Lord Turner's is one of the few voices with real intellectual heft.
  特纳勋爵的观点是少数几个真正有智力分量的观点之一。
• But as China gains international heft, its lack of global brands threatens its dream of becoming a superpower.
  今年，它可能会超越日本，成为全球第二大经济体。然而，在中国获得国际影响力的同时，自主品牌的缺失却正在威胁着中国实现超级大国的梦想。
• The size and heft of current fuel cells has been a major obstacle to making them practical for use in automobiles.
  目前的燃料电池的体积和重量是将它们实际运用于汽车的主要障碍。
• The US overtook Britain in economic heft in the 1870s, but not until the 1920s – when the burdens of war debt and other pressures on the UK economy had mounted – did sterling give way to the dollar.
  在19世纪70年代，美国经济的影响力就已经超过英国，但直到20世纪20年代，英镑才让位于美元&当时，战争债务及其它压力的重担压得英国经济喘不过起来。
• However, the French group no longer needs the heft that such an acquisition would provide.
  不过，这家法国企业不再需要这样一项收购所带来的影响了。
• The search company also chose not to ally itself with a local partner with the heft and the connections to provide cover from hostile bureaucrats and politicians.
  这家搜索公司还选择了不与有权有势、能在不友好的官员和政治家面前为其打掩护的当地合作伙伴结盟。
• This power source has advantage of small volume, light heft, reliable working stabilization and wide waveband.
  该电源具有体积小、重量轻、工作稳定可靠，频率范围宽的优点。
• More important, it would come closer to giving countries such as China and India a share of IMF votes commensurate with their new economic heft.
  更重要的是，它可以赋予中国和印度等国与其新的经济份量更加相称的投票权份额。
• And although Google is doing a pretty good job aggregating meanings, I would prefer some human experts to give authority and heft to a new database of meaning.
  尽管谷歌在聚合释义方面做得不错，但我更希望能有一些专家学者给新的释义数据库提供权威、有份量的内容。
• Less welcome, however, is the financial heft that will result from its initial public offering, which will allow the company to vertically integrate through acquisitions, becoming a bigger producer in markets in which it trades.
  但不太受欢迎的一面是，该公司将从首次公开发行（ipo）中获得资金实力，从而能够通过收购进行垂直整合，成为其所在交易市场的更大的生产商。