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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Exporters also have more political heft.
  出口国也具有更大的政治影响力。
• 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。
• 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。
• Always liked me a sidearm with some heft.
  我一直喜欢腰间佩戴点有重量的东西。