heft

英

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

• 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。
• American suggests breadth, width and heft: a bigger, more panoramic vision.
  美国意味着宽度、广度和分量：一种更大、更为全景式的景象。
• 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。
• It must also use its heft to bring other poor nations behind it.
  中国还应该运用自己的份量，率领其它穷国。
• Influence will increase along with economic heft.
  经济实力增强了，影响力也就更强。
• Always liked me a sidearm with some heft.
  我一直喜欢腰间佩戴点有重量的东西。
• Exporters also have more political heft.
  出口国也具有更大的政治影响力。
• 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。
• Part of what contributes to the Yamaha's heft is a steel chassis.
  部分内容有助于雅马哈的试验是一个钢铁底盘。
• 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。