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
- Always liked me a sidearm with some heft.
我一直喜欢腰间佩戴点有重量的东西。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Lord Turner's is one of the few voices with real intellectual heft.
特纳勋爵的观点是少数几个真正有智力分量的观点之一。 - 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。 - UBS is gearing up to use its balance sheet heft to back its new co-head of investment banking as the Swiss group steps up efforts to revive its status in the market.
瑞银（UBS）准备利用其庞大的资产负债表规模来支持其新任投行部门联席主管。该行正加大努力恢复其在市场中的地位。