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
verb
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - If the problem of a rising China is that it will have a lot of bargaining power by virtue of its economic size and dominance, then a multilateral process will add more negotiating heft on the other side of the negotiation.
中国拥有很大的经济规模、具有经济上的主导地位，因而在谈判中有更强的议价能力如果这就是中国崛起的问题所在，那么多边程序就能让谈判的另一方拥有更大的影响力。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。