| 词汇 | outweighed |
| 释义 | outweighed past simple and past participle ofoutweigh outweigh verb[ T ] uk /ˌaʊtˈweɪ/ us /ˌaʊtˈweɪ/ C1 to be greater or more important than something else: 比…更重要；重于；大于 The benefits of this treatment far outweigh any risks.这种治疗方法的好处远远大于任何风险。 Being important and having importance beat big deal bulk bulk largeidiom centrality count countable echo down/through the agesidiom equally fish front and centre have bigger/other fish to fryidiom have/take pride of placeidiom matter preponderate pride reign rise the beating heart of somethingidiom treasurable Examples of outweighedoutweighed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. These factors more than outweighed an equalizing decline in fertility rates. 40. We think that a small gain for them can be morally outweighed by a much larger gain for others who are also badly-off. Similarly, the same points could be made in all the cases where the justice-based reasons for following conventions were outweighed. At the aggregate level, the costs of developing the market must be outweighed by the potential societal benefits. Therefore, the distortions of the tax increase are outweighed by the benefits of the subsidy it finances. The control for diagnosed illness outweighed the effect of poor health as the main motivation for leaving the labour force. Purchases outweighed sales by a factor of about two, and their absolute level surpassed the mean value recorded for farmers (903 versus 723 gulden). As the findings showed, the effect of the objective indicator, 'diagnosed illness ', outweighed the effect of perceived or subjective health. When evaluating overall equality, are we sure that this increase in equality is outweighed by the decrease in equality among the two better off? Of course, if we are moderate egalitarians, this is sure to be outweighed by the positive contribution from the increase in mean welfare. There are other areas where you have to have a cost-benefit analysis, a consequentialist analysis, where the possible suffering is outweighed by the good. To date, however, such incentives and disincentives have continued to be outweighed by the benefits of exile. Yet the trade offered advantages which frequently outweighed the financial loss or the risk. Because it is outweighed by personal value, it does not make an outcome worse (408-409). However, our study shows that this consideration is apparently outweighed by the four factors just discussed. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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