| 词汇 | wielding |
| 释义 | wielding present 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 wieldingwielding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. They were patrons of academic colleges, hospitals, chantries, wielding large sums of money and the ability to mould institutions in to the future. Thus, for a court to have the potential of wielding real power, its jurisdiction must envelop salient political, social, and economic questions. Rather, the 1920s 'was a time when women were engaged in the transformative stage from wielding in-uence to exercising power' (p. 9). This is a thinking person's guide to usage, beside which many other books look like nannies dishing out blancmange or schoolmasters wielding the cane. It also promises something to those who have the responsibility of wielding power over others. There was a positive wielding of power over the processes of social and cultural reproduction. Significantly, after the conclusion of the expedition, they were rewarded by being allowed to go on wielding a great deal of power and a conspicuous share of wealth. Fidel has no more use for those wielding carrots than for those wielding sticks. If wielding a more widely validated language gives women a major avenue of social advancement, it makes sense that women would be more critical of the local language around them. Women (some of them very obscure figures) and minorities are everywhere to be seen, and not just wielding stethoscopes or chain saws. Wielding a mixture of filth and germ theory, and assorted forms of contagionism, sanitary engineers implored local authorities to abandon tipping and adopt burning before the visitation of an epidemic. Hence, in switching between the languages, par ticipants allegedly exploit these relations for purposes of wielding power. The net result is that the animal panics and begins to struggle and so the stick wielding becomes more vigorous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The military cliques which have perpetrated the coup and are wielding power arbitrarily must be stopped. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The fact that those wielding power are men conditions the way in which decisions are made that affect all our lives. 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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