英语单词 | weighty |
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英美音标 | 英 ['weɪti] 美 ['weɪti] |
中文释义 | adj.重要的;沉重的;有力的 |
英语例句 | (1) Let us turn to less weighty matters. (2) Mr.White is a weighty merchant of Boston. (3) Your baggage must be very weighty. (4) Lucy seemed to have something weighty on her mind. (5) The following sentence is taken from the weighty judgment of a scholarly reviewer. |
中文例句 | (1) 让我们换个话题谈谈不那么严重的事情吧。 (2) 怀特先生是一个有影响力的波士顿商人。 (3) 我猜想您的行李一定是非常沉的。 (4) 露西好像心事重重。 (5) 下句即取自一位博学的评论家的权威性文章。 |
vocabulary简明 | Weighty things are either very heavy or extremely important and worrisome. Putting your weighty cat on a diet might be a weighty issue that nags at you. |
vocabulary扩展 | If your luggage is too weighty, you'll have to pay an extra fee at the airport. And if you've got a mind full of weighty problems, you won't be able to fall asleep on your long flight. Sometimes this adjective is also used to mean "influential," like the weighty influence your SAT scores might have on your chances of being accepted at a competitive college. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]重要的;事关重大的 If you describe something such as an issue or a decision as weighty, you mean that it is serious or important. [usu ADJ n] [FORMAL 正式]
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](尤指书)重的,沉甸甸的 You use weighty to describe something, especially a book, that is heavy or heavier than you would expect. [LITERARY 文]
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