| 词汇 | weighty |
| 释义 | weighty adjective uk /ˈweɪ.ti/ us /ˈweɪ.t̬i/ weightyadjective (HEAVY)heavy: 重的，沉重的 I don't want to carry this bag around all afternoon - it's pretty weighty.我不想整个下午到哪儿都带着这个包——它相当沉。 weighing more than normal heavyWow, this suitcase is really heavy. weightyThe shelves were full of large, oversized dictionaries and other weighty volumes. weigh a tonMy old laptop weighs a ton compared to this new table. super-heavyThey sell a midsize SUV, but their latest SUV is super-heavy. ultra-heavyShe bought an ultra-heavy motorcycle for long-distance rides. Thick, dense and heavy blocky cakey chunkily chunkiness chunky claggy dense densely heavily heaviness heftily hefty high density lumpen super-thick thicken thickening thickly thickness weigh weightyadjective (SERIOUS)A weighty subject, book, or piece of work is important or serious: 重要的，重大的；严重的 weighty matters/issues举足轻重的事件／问题 Very important or urgent all-important at all costsidiom be a matter of life and/or deathidiom cardinally chief imperative last last but not leastidiom leading life-altering life-and-death overriding primacy primary prime principally prior seminal tectonic weightily weighty | American Dictionaryweighty adjective us/ˈweɪ·t̬i/ important and serious: They discussed weighty topics like arms control, the Middle East, and the federal budget deficit. Examples of weightyweighty The plot gets itself tangled up in multiple villain strands, but in the main, this installment is emotionally weightier and more satisfying than its predecessor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His reward was no more than a weightier crop that autumn. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They obeyed the minutiae of the law such as titheing spices but not the weightier matters of the law. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Taken from the language of riders, it means putting more weighty effort into the matter than is necessary. They are not only aesthetically pleasing (as in the fractal image), but also weighty in meaning. Yes, horrific threats require weighty interventions, including even the involuntary detainment of law-abiding citizens thought to be possible disease vectors. Also, as noted previously, experience making these weighty decisions allows adolescents to exercise and develop decisionmaking skills. Such considerations, it is claimed, are of significant practical weight-so weighty, in fact, that they generate obligations to conform. In particular, though the decision-theoretic objection to the doxastic venture model is a weighty one, there are good prospects for an adequate reply to it. The specialist reports on the ®nds are nonetheless weighty (pp. 44 + 178) and air much new research. Supermajority rules are often used in binary decisions where a positive decision is weightier than a negative one. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. An item with a high token frequency may be argued to be more weighty than one which is of a low token frequency. The densest of strettos was supposed to be saved till the end of the composition, where it would provide a weighty climax. The inclusion of weighty encomiums on the cover of a book can easily be offputting. She complains that his work lacks "sound, accurate, weighty thought" as well as "genuine poetic inspiration" (238). See all examples of weighty 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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