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

• Influence will increase along with economic heft.
  经济实力增强了，影响力也就更强。
• 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。
• Part of what contributes to the Yamaha's heft is a steel chassis.
  部分内容有助于雅马哈的试验是一个钢铁底盘。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Exporters also have more political heft.
  出口国也具有更大的政治影响力。
• 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。