| 单词 | weigh |
| 释义 | weigh (weɪ ) Word forms: weighs , weighing , weighed 1. verb [no cont] B1 If someone or something weighs a particular amount, this amount is how heavy they are. It weighs nearly 27 kilos (about 60 pounds). [VERB amount] This little ball of gold weighs a quarter of an ounce. [VERB amount] You always weigh less in the morning. [VERB amount] 2. verb B1 If you weigh something or someone, you measure how heavy they are. The scales can be used to weigh other items such as parcels. [VERB noun] 3. verb B2 If you weigh the facts about a situation, you consider them very carefully before you make a decision, especially by comparing the various facts involved. She weighed her options. [VERB noun] He is weighing the possibility of filing criminal charges against the doctor. [VERB noun] She spoke very slowly, weighing what she would say. [VERB wh] Synonyms: consider, study, examine, contemplate Weigh up means the same as weigh. [mainly British] The company will be able to weigh up the environmental pros and cons of each site. [VERB PARTICLE noun] You have to weigh up whether a human life is more important than an animal's life. [VERB PARTICLE wh] Synonyms: compare, balance, contrast, juxtapose 4. verb If you weigh your words, you think very carefully before you say something. He said the words very slowly, as if weighing each one of them. [VERB noun] 5. verb If a problem weighs on you, it makes you worried or unhappy. The separation weighed on both of them. [VERB on/upon noun] She knows how your brother's disappearance weighs upon you. [VERB on/upon noun] 6. verb Something that weighs heavily in a situation has a strong influence or important effect on it. Current economic hardships weigh heavily in young women's decisions to find salaried work. [V adv prep] Human life weighed more with him than purity of policy. [V adv prep] There are many factors weighing against the meeting happening. [V against n/-ing] Phrasal verbs: weigh down 1. phrasal verb If something that you are wearing or carrying weighs you down, it stops you moving easily by making you heavier. He took off his shoes. If they had to swim, he didn't want anything weighing him down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] These nests increase in size each year, and can eventually weigh down the branch. [VERB PARTICLE noun] ...soldiers weighed down by their heavy packs. [VERB-ed PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you are weighed down by something, it makes you extremely worried or causes you great problems. The merchant bank is being weighed down by a £1.3 billion book of bad debts. [be V-ed by/with n] ...the depression that weighed him down each morning. [VERB noun PARTICLE] weighed down graded adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] I was too weighed down by guilt to eat the sweet. weigh in 1. phrasal verb If you weigh in on a plan, decision, or discussion, you add your advice or comments to it. [journalism] The President's political advisers also weighed in on the plan. [V P on n] Cranston and others were improperly trying to weigh in on the decision. [V P on n] 2. phrasal verb If someone weighs in at a particular weight, for example before competing in a sports competition, their weight is measured at that amount. [journalism] He weighed in on Friday night at around 19 stone. [V P at amount] Their daughter Renee weighed in at 8lb 3oz. [V P at amount] 3. See also weigh-in weigh out phrasal verb B2 If you weigh something out, you measure a certain weight of it in order to make sure that you have the correct amount. I agreed to help him weigh it out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] I learned how to weigh out packages of seed. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] weigh up 1. weigh [sense 3] 2. phrasal verb If you weigh someone up, you try and find out what they are like and form an opinion of them, especially when you are suspicious of them. [mainly British] My recruiting sergeant weighed me up when I first walked into his office. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Translations: Chinese: 称重量 Japanese: 重さが･･･ある |
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