heft

1. And although Google is doing a pretty good job aggregating meanings, I would prefer some human experts to give authority and heft to a new database of meaning.
   尽管谷歌在聚合释义方面做得不错，但我更希望能有一些专家学者给新的释义数据库提供权威、有份量的内容。
2. But some nimble Chinese companies without the heft of the multinational giants are poised to ride the Olympic boom, too.
   不过一些不及这些跨国公司财大气粗但却灵活敏捷的中国公司也在积极挖掘奥运商机。
3. Known primarily for its e-commerce heft in China, Alibaba is redesigning its business for the mobile Internet era by stepping up investment in its own smartphone operating system.
   阿里巴巴集团在中国主要以其电商业务而闻名。通过加大对它自己的智能手机操作系统的投资力度，该公司正在为适应移动互联网时代的到来重新调整业务。
4. More important, it would come closer to giving countries such as China and India a share of IMF votes commensurate with their new economic heft.
   更重要的是，它可以赋予中国和印度等国与其新的经济份量更加相称的投票权份额。
5. But market forces, more than regulatory pressures, are stacking up against the company, as it struggles to maintain its earnings power and geopolitical heft.
   但比监管压力更严重的，是对该公司不利的市场力量正在日益累积，而且俄气现在很难维持自己的盈利能力和地缘政治影响力。
6. Foxconn, in its growing heft as the world's largest electronics contract company, was also getting more difficult for Apple to control, with incidents such as changing component sourcing without notifying Apple, people familiar with the matter said.
   知情人士说，作为全球最大的电子产品合同制造商，富士康的影响力越来越大，苹果也越来越难以控制这家企业。此前曾发生过富士康改变零部件采购来源却没有通知苹果等事件。
7. Part of what contributes to the Yamaha's heft is a steel chassis.
   部分内容有助于雅马哈的试验是一个钢铁底盘。
8. Less welcome, however, is the financial heft that will result from its initial public offering, which will allow the company to vertically integrate through acquisitions, becoming a bigger producer in markets in which it trades.
   但不太受欢迎的一面是，该公司将从首次公开发行（ipo）中获得资金实力，从而能够通过收购进行垂直整合，成为其所在交易市场的更大的生产商。
9. Coping with these challenges will require heft and broad expertise.
   应对这些挑战将需要既有深度又有广度的诀窍。
10. Influence will increase along with economic heft.
    经济实力增强了，影响力也就更强。
11. Exporters also have more political heft.
    出口国也具有更大的政治影响力。
12. But as China gains international heft, its lack of global brands threatens its dream of becoming a superpower.
    今年，它可能会超越日本，成为全球第二大经济体。然而，在中国获得国际影响力的同时，自主品牌的缺失却正在威胁着中国实现超级大国的梦想。
13. Surely, it takes much more restraint and far more faith in one's readers to place the full heft of a book in the bumbling hands of an unreliable first person.
    不过要把叙述整部作品的重任都放到不可靠的第一人称叙事者那摇晃的肩膀上去，也的确需要作家的自我克制，和对读者的信任。
14. The search company also chose not to ally itself with a local partner with the heft and the connections to provide cover from hostile bureaucrats and politicians.
    这家搜索公司还选择了不与有权有势、能在不友好的官员和政治家面前为其打掩护的当地合作伙伴结盟。
15. However, the French group no longer needs the heft that such an acquisition would provide.
    不过，这家法国企业不再需要这样一项收购所带来的影响了。
16. This power source has advantage of small volume, light heft, reliable working stabilization and wide waveband.
    该电源具有体积小、重量轻、工作稳定可靠，频率范围宽的优点。
17. If the problem of a rising China is that it will have a lot of bargaining power by virtue of its economic size and dominance, then a multilateral process will add more negotiating heft on the other side of the negotiation.
    中国拥有很大的经济规模、具有经济上的主导地位，因而在谈判中有更强的议价能力如果这就是中国崛起的问题所在，那么多边程序就能让谈判的另一方拥有更大的影响力。
18. American suggests breadth, width and heft: a bigger, more panoramic vision.
    美国意味着宽度、广度和分量：一种更大、更为全景式的景象。
19. The US overtook Britain in economic heft in the 1870s, but not until the 1920s – when the burdens of war debt and other pressures on the UK economy had mounted – did sterling give way to the dollar.
    在19世纪70年代，美国经济的影响力就已经超过英国，但直到20世纪20年代，英镑才让位于美元&当时，战争债务及其它压力的重担压得英国经济喘不过起来。
20. It must also use its heft to bring other poor nations behind it.
    中国还应该运用自己的份量，率领其它穷国。
21. GE, which also outlined yesterday its expansion into offshore wind power, made its initial solar foray in 2004 with hopes that its heft and manufacturing acumen could lower production costs enough to make the sun's rays another affordable source of alternative energy.
    该公司首次涉足太阳能是在2004年，希望其影响力和制造能力能够大幅降低生产成本，令太阳光成为另一种可负担得起的替代能源。该公司昨日还宣布将涉足海上风力发电领域。
22. China remains a unique animal in the world economy, a developing country by many benchmarks, but one with such size and heft that its impact is felt more like that of a superpower.
    中国仍然是全球经济体系中的独特个体，以许多标准来衡量，它都是一个发展中国家；但中国拥有如此庞大的规模和重要性，以至于外界感觉它的影响更像是一个超级经济大国。
23. Quite literally, over time, our brains lose their heft.
    很坦白地讲，长期下来，我们的大脑的重量会减轻。
24. And as all international institutions struggle to cope with the global shift of economic heft towards Asia, this medieval structure may in fact help it modernise.
    所有国际机构都在奋力应对经济影响力向亚洲转变这一全球性转变，世贸组织的中世纪结构或许在事实上帮助了它向现代化前进。
25. The size and heft of current fuel cells has been a major obstacle to making them practical for use in automobiles.
    目前的燃料电池的体积和重量是将它们实际运用于汽车的主要障碍。
26. Always liked me a sidearm with some heft.
    我一直喜欢腰间佩戴点有重量的东西。
27. Lord Turner's is one of the few voices with real intellectual heft.
    特纳勋爵的观点是少数几个真正有智力分量的观点之一。
28. He or she will need heft to lead reform and to persuade the public to place its trust in a cleaned-up Commons.
    这位他或者她要有能力领导改革，也要能劝服公众信任净化后的下议院。
29. UBS is gearing up to use its balance sheet heft to back its new co-head of investment banking as the Swiss group steps up efforts to revive its status in the market.
    瑞银（UBS）准备利用其庞大的资产负债表规模来支持其新任投行部门联席主管。该行正加大努力恢复其在市场中的地位。

noun

1. the property of being large in mass

   Synonym:    heftinessmassivenessponderousnessponderosity

verb

1. lift or elevate

   Synonym:    heaveheave upheft up

2. test the weight of something by lifting it