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

• Foxconn, in its growing heft as the world's largest electronics contract company, was also getting more difficult for Apple to control, with incidents such as changing component sourcing without notifying Apple, people familiar with the matter said.
  知情人士说，作为全球最大的电子产品合同制造商，富士康的影响力越来越大，苹果也越来越难以控制这家企业。此前曾发生过富士康改变零部件采购来源却没有通知苹果等事件。
• 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。
• China remains a unique animal in the world economy, a developing country by many benchmarks, but one with such size and heft that its impact is felt more like that of a superpower.
  中国仍然是全球经济体系中的独特个体，以许多标准来衡量，它都是一个发展中国家；但中国拥有如此庞大的规模和重要性，以至于外界感觉它的影响更像是一个超级经济大国。
• 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。
• But some nimble Chinese companies without the heft of the multinational giants are poised to ride the Olympic boom, too.
  不过一些不及这些跨国公司财大气粗但却灵活敏捷的中国公司也在积极挖掘奥运商机。
• 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。
• Surely, it takes much more restraint and far more faith in one's readers to place the full heft of a book in the bumbling hands of an unreliable first person.
  不过要把叙述整部作品的重任都放到不可靠的第一人称叙事者那摇晃的肩膀上去，也的确需要作家的自我克制，和对读者的信任。
• Exporters also have more political heft.
  出口国也具有更大的政治影响力。
• 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。
• 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。