heft
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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
verb
双语例句
- Quite literally, over time, our brains lose their heft.
很坦白地讲，长期下来，我们的大脑的重量会减轻。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Always liked me a sidearm with some heft.
我一直喜欢腰间佩戴点有重量的东西。 - Influence will increase along with economic heft.
经济实力增强了，影响力也就更强。 - He or she will need heft to lead reform and to persuade the public to place its trust in a cleaned-up Commons.
这位他或者她要有能力领导改革，也要能劝服公众信任净化后的下议院。 - GE, which also outlined yesterday its expansion into offshore wind power, made its initial solar foray in 2004 with hopes that its heft and manufacturing acumen could lower production costs enough to make the sun's rays another affordable source of alternative energy.
该公司首次涉足太阳能是在2004年，希望其影响力和制造能力能够大幅降低生产成本，令太阳光成为另一种可负担得起的替代能源。该公司昨日还宣布将涉足海上风力发电领域。 - But market forces, more than regulatory pressures, are stacking up against the company, as it struggles to maintain its earnings power and geopolitical heft.
但比监管压力更严重的，是对该公司不利的市场力量正在日益累积，而且俄气现在很难维持自己的盈利能力和地缘政治影响力。 - And as all international institutions struggle to cope with the global shift of economic heft towards Asia, this medieval structure may in fact help it modernise.
所有国际机构都在奋力应对经济影响力向亚洲转变这一全球性转变，世贸组织的中世纪结构或许在事实上帮助了它向现代化前进。