Weigh
[weɪ] or [we]
解释:
(verb.) to be oppressive or burdensome; 'weigh heavily on the mind', 'Something pressed on his mind'.
(verb.) determine the weight of; 'The butcher weighed the chicken'.
(verb.) have a certain weight.
艾哈迈德校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
(v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
(v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
(v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
(v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
(v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
(v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
(v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.
(v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
(v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.
(v. i.) To judge; to estimate.
(n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
整理:普雷斯利
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Try in the balance, find the weight of.[2]. Counterbalance, be equivalent to in weight.[3]. Examine, ponder, balance in the mind, meditate upon.
v. n. [1]. Gravitate, be heavy.[2]. Bear, press, bear heavily, press hard.
校对:内尔
解释:
n. a very common misspelling of way in the phrase 'Under way ' through confusion with the phrase 'To weigh anchor.'
to raise esp. a ship's anchor: to ponder in the mind: to consider worthy of notice.—v.i. to have weight: to be considered of importance: to press heavily: to weigh anchor get under sail.—adj. Weigh′able capable of being weighed.—ns. Weigh′age rate paid for the weighing of goods; Weigh′-bauk (Scot.) the beam of a balance: (pl.) a pair of scales; Weigh′-board (same as Way-board); Weigh′-bridge a machine for weighing carts with their loads.—p.adj. Weighed (Bacon) experienced.—ns. Weigh′er an officer who weighs articles or tests weights; Weigh′-house a public building for weighing goods ascertaining the tonnage of boats &c.; Weigh′ing; Weigh′ing-cage a cage in which live animals are weighed; Weigh′ing-machine′ a machine or apparatus for weighing heavy goods; Weight the heaviness of a thing when weighed or the amount which anything weighs: the force with which a body is attracted to the earth measured by the mass into the acceleration: a mass of metal adjusted to a standard and used for finding weight: anything heavy: a ponderous mass: pressure: importance: power: impressiveness: in mining subsidence of the roof due to overhead pressure also called Weigh′ting.—v.t. to make more heavy.—adv. Weigh′tily.—n. Weigh′tiness.—adjs. Weight′less; Weigh′ty.—Weigh down to depress: (Shak.) to preponderate over; Weigh in to ascertain one's weight before a contest as a horse-race; Weight of metal total weight of iron thrown at one discharge from a ship's guns.—Dead weight (see Dead).
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例句:
- These engines weigh as much as 31 tons, which is seven times more than the weight of the Rocket. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- My meditative silence appeared to weigh upon the spirits of this worldling, and to force him, as it were, into talking to me against his own will. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- In a little while, it will weigh lighter than any feather. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Birkin had a great subtle energy, that would press upon the other man with an uncanny force, weigh him like a spell put upon him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Did anything weigh on her mind? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- And these dreams weigh on your spirits now, Jane, when I am close to you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Who can weigh virtue, or even fortune against health, or moral and mental qualities against bodily? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- A few days before she had done a dreadful thing, and it weighed upon her conscience. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- The Rocket weighed 41 tons; the tender, with water and coke, 3 tons 4 cwt. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The shields used weighed approximately sixty-seven tons each. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The anxious terror in which Mr. Hale lived lest his son should be detected and captured, far out-weighed the pleasure he derived from his presence. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Rigaud chinked the money, weighed it in his hand, threw it up a little way and caught it, chinked it again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The man himself, for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring, by bodily exercise, to ease the load that weighed upon my mind. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- There is no reason, therefore, to think that money troubles have been weighing upon his mind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This heavy oil engine, weighing about five hundred pounds per horse-power, was not adapted to the submarine, and efforts have been made to decrease the weight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Kerchak was a huge king ape, weighing perhaps three hundred and fifty pounds. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The scales are set according to the chemist's weighing orders, and the material is fed into the scales from the hoppers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- To this standard the inventions of the century in weighing scales have come. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Now it is known that one cubic inch of mercury weighs about half a pound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It weighs 272,000 pounds, with tender 70 feet long, and has a draw-bar pull of 30,700 pounds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The Orloff diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, weighs 195 carats; the Pitt diamond, among the French crown jewels, 136-1/2. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Abraham weighs to Ephron the four hundred shekels of silver which he had agreed to pay for the field of Machpelah. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- A gallon of water weighs approximately 8. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The upper head of the compressor weighs 125 tons, and the lower one, including the cylinder through which the hydraulic pressure is applied, 135 tons. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- With the roadway and suspension chains attached, each tube weighs 1,100 tons. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
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