weighty

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◎ 单词释义

adj.重要的;沉重的;有力的

副词: weightily 比较级: weightier 最高级: weightiest 名词: weightiness

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adj

1. excessively fat

e.g. a weighty man

Synonym: corpulentobeserotund

2. having relatively great weight
heavy

e.g. a weighty load
a weighty package

3. weighing heavily on the spirit
causing anxiety or worry

e.g. weighty problems

4. of great gravity or crucial import
requiring serious thought

e.g. grave responsibilities
faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
a grievous fault
heavy matters of state
the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference

Synonym: gravegrievousheavy

5. powerfully persuasive

e.g. a cogent argument
a telling presentation
a weighty argument

Synonym: cogenttelling

1. 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.

e.g. Surely such weighty matters merit a higher level of debate?
这样重大的事件谅必应进行更高级别的讨论吧?

2. (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.

e.g. Simon lifted a weighty volume from the shelf.
西蒙从书架上取下一本厚重的书。

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weighty的用法及例句:

What would the emperor of Japan do if he could shed his weighty crown for a day and roam freely among the common people?(如果有一天日本天皇可以摘下他沉重的皇冠,成为一个普通人,他会做些什么呢?)

Weighty evidence, this, in that simple age.(在那个简单的时代,这就是有力的证据。)

When you’re finished with your massive to-do list, or at least the extremely weighty parts of it, take time to celebrate.(当你完成了那些堆积如山的待办事项,或者至少完成了其中的绝大部分时,花点时间犒劳自己吧。)

Obesity is a weighty problem.(过度肥胖是严重的问题。)

Australia is also set for a weighty crop, having successfully dealt with a threatened plague of locusts.(由于成功消除了可能发生的蝗虫灾害,澳大利亚也将要丰收沉甸甸的粮食。)

Behind the presidential contenders come other surprisingly weighty candidates for medium-sized cabinet posts.(除了之前的竞选对手,其他令人吃惊的重量级候选人也担任了内阁中的中等职位。)

But a great piece on NPR (video) shows just how weighty clouds, thunderstorms, and even hurricanes can be.(但是国内公用无线电台的很多录像带显示了那些云朵、雷雨甚至飓风的重量有多么的沉重。)

This kind of testimony can be weighty and convincing to others.(这样的见证对别人同样是极具分量和说服力的。)

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.(石头重,沙土沉,愚妄人的恼怒,比这两样更重。)

The matter, which was a weighty one, was like to go against the English monarch by default.(这一重大事件,在一般情况下,似乎是对英国君主不利的。)

Up-bore my load, and prest the sinking sands With weighty steps.