| 词汇 | swingeing |
| 释义 | swingeing adjective UKformaluk /ˈswɪn.dʒɪŋ/ us /ˈswɪn.dʒɪŋ/ extreme and having a serious and unpleasant effect: 极度的，巨大的，严重的 We are going to have to make swingeing cuts in the budget.我们将不得不大幅削减预算。 Serious and severe acutely acuteness advanced catastrophic catastrophically chronic dire fatal grave grievously heaviness hyperacute non-fatal non-serious seriously stringent terminal terminally toughness utmost swingeing | Business Englishswingeing adjective UKformal/ˈswɪndʒɪŋ/ukus extreme and having a serious and unpleasant effect: The government is expected to make swingeing cuts. Examples of swingeingswingeing This confident, swingeing condemnation in part reflected the disarray, fragmentation, and anxieties of the evangelical movement as a whole by the 1890s. This doubt about tone commences with the book's prologue, which offers a swingeing deconstruction of the logic of racial theory. The present proposed swingeing increase in costs will cut their lifeline. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then comes a swingeing gas price increase for our industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was swingeing criticism of the activity of institutional shareholders at its recent annual meeting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he not also agree that swingeing public expenditure cuts would produce even more unemployment and would represent a yielding to international bankers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a swingeing power is not only unnecessary but represents a blatant attack on the independence and the integrity of the schemes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They cannot bemoan the improving financial position of the health service while proposing swingeing cuts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For example, the comptroller ought to be told exactly when he should be using these swingeing powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He may have been moderately comfort- ably off, but he was not regarded as a wealthy man on whom we imposed a swingeing tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This constitutes not only a swingeing attack on the public sector, but also calls into question the very concept of public service. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The swingeing cuts in public investment are likely to cause that downturn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thirdly, its effect will be rather swingeing because where it does bite it will apply the deemed domicile for all tax purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It could lead to an enormous amount of swingeing over-charging when a person goes to buy a pair of spectacles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will put a swingeing tax on capital profits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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