| 词汇 | wielded |
| 释义 | wielded past simple and past participle ofwield 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 recycle spare swallow tap turn over turn to someone/something turn/use something to good accountidiom unblock underuse Examples of wieldedwielded In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. Unfortunately, this only emphasizes the perception that power is being wielded according to personal bias/desire. 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. Language has long been used as a tool by which hegemonic power can be wielded over those with alternative world visions. Some of the nonnative writing might have been further polished, and the editors might have wielded the scissors on some of the cross-contribution repetitiveness. 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. To a large extent, it was determined by the power and influence that he wielded in the neighbourhood. From at least the late nineteenth century, it is possible to detect an unease among the millowners about the apparent influence that the jobber wielded. Daughters and their spouses also inherited even when sons were available and women appear to have wielded some power in the succession process. 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. 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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