詞彙精選:weighty的用法和辨析
一、詞義辨析:
heavy,weighty
這兩個形容詞都可表示“重的,沉重的”之意。heavy普通用詞,指重量或體積大大超過同類物體,常用作引申,多指精神上的重壓等。weighty多指實際上而不是相對的沉重,引申指嚴重或重要。
二、參考例句:
A weighty subject.
重量單位。
Obesity is a weighty problem.
過度肥胖是一個重大問題。
This is a weighty editoriAl on education.
這是一篇關於教育的很有分量的社論。
It is weighty work, which he cannot wield by himself.
這是很有分量的工作,不是他自己能處理的。
Such weighty family obligations kept him from proposing to his sweetheart, Alma, for 8 long years.
沉重的家庭負擔使他對心上人阿爾瑪的求婚滯後了漫長的8年。
The following sentence is taken from the weighty judgement of a scholarly reviewer.
下列即取自一位博學的評論家的權威性文章。