weighty

• adj. 重的；重大的；严肃的

1. having relatively great weight; heavy;

"a weighty load"

"a weighty package"

2. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;

"grave responsibilities"

"faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"

"a grievous fault"

"heavy matters of state"

"the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"

3. weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry;

"weighty problems"

4. excessively fat;

"a weighty man"

5. powerfully persuasive;

"a cogent argument"

"a telling presentation"

"a weighty argument"

weighty (adj.)

late 14c., "heavy;" late 15c., "important, serious, grave;" from weight (n.) + -y (2). Related: Weightiness.

heavy, weighty

这两个形容词都可表示"重的，沉重的"之意。

heavy： 普通用词，指重量或体积大大超过同类物体，常用作引申，多指精神上的重压等。

weighty： 多指实际上而不是相对的沉重，引申指严重或重要。

It is an attempt to deal with a set of weighty topics.

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weighty matters

重大事情

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a weighty volume/tome

大部头书

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Surely such weighty matters merit a higher level of debate?

这样重大的事件谅必应进行更高级别的讨论吧？

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Simon lifted a weighty volume from the shelf.

西蒙从书架上取下一本厚重的书。

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This was a subject most of the people thought weighty.

这是一个大多数人认为严肃的题目.

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Under the background it has weighty operation significance to study operational risk measurement of Chinese banking.

在此背景下本文研究中国的银行操作风险度量问题具有重要的现实意义.

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Light grief speaks , the weighty is dumb.

小悲伤喋喋不休;大悲伤沉默寡言.

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The tweeter integrates well with the potent , weighty bottom end.

同时,它具有震撼人心的低音.

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She wheeled the weighty suitcase over to the taxi.

她将沉重的提箱推到出租车旁.

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It is weighty work, which he cannot wield by himself.

这是很有分量的工作, 不是他自己能处理的.

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He considered his consent too weighty to be given in a hurry.

他认为自己的意见举足轻重、不能遽尔表示出来.

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That privilege should come with weighty conditions.

这种特权应当附带苛刻的条件.

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It is weighty, nay, conclusive.

那很重要, 不, 有决定的作用.

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This issue carries a weighty editorial on education.

这期登了一篇有关教育的很有分量的社论.

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The following sentence is taken from the weighty judgment of a scholarly reviewer.

下句即取自一位博学的评论家的权威性文章.

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Your baggage must be very weighty.

我猜想您的行李一定是非常沉的.

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Fame , like water , bear up the lighter thing , and let the weighty sink.

名声外水, 轻的上浮, 重的下沉.

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Let us turn to less weighty matters.

让我们换个话题谈谈不那么严重的事情吧.

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Australia also set for a weighty crop, having successfully dealt with a threatened plague of locusts.

而澳大利亚成功消除蝗灾威胁后,也是收成颇丰.

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Mr Arditti has written sensitively about many weighty issues — betrayal, fanaticism, faith — in his previous books.

在阿迪提过去的著作中,他总以感性的笔调描述那些沉甸甸的话题:如背叛 、 狂热和信仰.

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This is weighty work, which he cannot wield by himself.

这是个有份量的工作, 不是他自己能处理的.

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Mr. White is a weighty merchant of Boston.

怀特先生是一个有影响力的波士顿商人.

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All these are weighty tasks.

这些全都是重中之重的问题.

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A friendly critic might have called his heaviness weighty.

善意的评论者甚至能把他的笨重举止说成是稳重沉着.

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He took time from his weighty duties to personally attend to someone really important.

他在百忙中抽空亲自去看望一个真正重要的人.

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In the coming months the judges will have other weighty business to decide.

在接下来的几个月内,法官们需要做出更重要的裁决.

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Simon, trying to squirm out from underneath the weighty hand, watched them go despairingly.

Simon想要挣脱Inch的大手, 很无助地看着这些人从他身边走过.

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Weighty tomes are for a small number of specialists; How can the masses read them?

长篇的东西是少数搞专业的人读的, 群众怎么读?

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