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

• 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。
• Influence will increase along with economic heft.
  经济实力增强了，影响力也就更强。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。