| 词汇 | wield |
| 释义 | wield verb[ T ] uk /wiːld/ us /wiːld/ C2 to hold a weapon or tool and look as if you are going to use it: 挥舞，握，抓着（武器或工具） She was confronted by a man wielding a knife.她受到一名持刀男子的威胁。 wield influence, power, etc. C2 to have a lot of influence or power over other people: 施加影响／运用权力（等等） He still wields enormous influence in politics.他在政坛仍然很有影响。 Using and misusing adopt adoption avail avail yourself of something be/go heavy on somethingidiom exhaust give/allow something full playidiom go into something go through gobble something up make capital out of somethingidiom spare spent swallow tap turn over turn to someone/something turn/use something to good accountidiom unblock underuse wield | American Dictionarywield verb[ T ] us/wild/ to have or use power, authority, or influence, or to hold and use a weapon: Under the new city charter, the mayor wields most of the power. Examples of wieldwield On his left, he wields the compass and square of architecture and the tools of sculpting and painting - hammer, inkpot and quill - and a painting. The author wields the blunt instruments of ' ' political transaction costs ' ' and ' ' induced ideological change ' ' at frequent intervals, inflicting substantial transaction costs on the reader. The impression was that the texts ' ' protested too much ' ' and were produced with a view to disproving the popular prejudices wielded against them. The modernization of state institutions afforded rulers greater power than ever before, which they wielded to silence and co-opt the ulema. There have been comparatively few attempts to explore ageism and the forms it takes or how it is wielded to uphold inequalities based upon age. In this they merely supplemented the already considerable physical force wielded by the official border security force. Thus, for a court to have the potential of wielding real power, its jurisdiction must envelop salient political, social, and economic questions. Language has long been used as a tool by which hegemonic power can be wielded over those with alternative world visions. Our highpowered theoretical tools must not be wielded ignorantly or unfeelingly. In response, nineteenth-century women of all classes wielded needles, hooks, and bobbins to an extent previously unknown. No government could afford to ignore the influence democratic politicians and the party press wielded in the public sphere. Rather, the 1920s 'was a time when women were engaged in the transformative stage from wielding in-uence to exercising power' (p. 9). In the absence of such criteria, arguments from 'description versus explanation' can be wielded more or less arbitrarily and as such carry no real force. Power most often is wielded in these accounts by male representatives of the state, of employers, or of the judicial system. Unlike party support, environmental interest-group pressure can be wielded more broadly on legislators and officials during and between elections. See all examples of wield 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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