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