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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Known primarily for its e-commerce heft in China, Alibaba is redesigning its business for the mobile Internet era by stepping up investment in its own smartphone operating system.
  阿里巴巴集团在中国主要以其电商业务而闻名。通过加大对它自己的智能手机操作系统的投资力度，该公司正在为适应移动互联网时代的到来重新调整业务。
• 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。