【例1】The dead weight of poverty oppressed these farmers.貧窮的重負壓在這些農民的身上。
【例2】This decision may give predominant weight (importance/influence) to a single intangible.這樣的決策可能給無形的因素以很大的影響力。
【派生】weighty a.重要的,沉重的,有力的 weighted a.加重的
【真題】There is no more difference, but there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person, as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales, and the operations of a chemist in performing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graded weights.科學家的思維活動與普通人的思維活動之間的區別,就像面包師或屠夫用普通秤稱貨的操作程序和方法與化學家使用天平和精密刻度的砝碼進行艱難而復雜的分析時所用的操作方法的區別一樣,除此之外,沒有其他差異。