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

• Influence will increase along with economic heft.
  经济实力增强了，影响力也就更强。
• 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。
• 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。
• Exporters also have more political heft.
  出口国也具有更大的政治影响力。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Foxconn, in its growing heft as the world's largest electronics contract company, was also getting more difficult for Apple to control, with incidents such as changing component sourcing without notifying Apple, people familiar with the matter said.
  知情人士说，作为全球最大的电子产品合同制造商，富士康的影响力越来越大，苹果也越来越难以控制这家企业。此前曾发生过富士康改变零部件采购来源却没有通知苹果等事件。
• 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。
• 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。