counterweight

英 [ˈkaʊntəweɪt]

美 [ˈkaʊntərweɪt]

n.  抗衡的行为(或提议); 平衡物

复数：counterweights　现在分词：counterweighting　过去式：counterweighted　第三人称单数：counterweights　

机械

BNC.24371 / COCA.19133

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 抗衡的行为(或提议);平衡物
  Acounterweightis an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  1. His no-inflation bill serves as a useful counterweight to proposals less acceptable to the Committee.
     他的反通货膨胀法案相对于那些不怎么让委员会满意的提案来说倒是一个有效的平衡。
• VERB 对…起平衡作用;抗衡
  If one action or proposal is intended tocounterweightanother, it is intended to balance or counter the other action or proposal.
  1. This will be used to counterweight the capital gains argument.
     这将被用来反对资本收益论。

英英释义

noun

• a weight that balances another weight
  Synonym:counterbalancecounterpoisebalanceequalizerequaliser

verb

• constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to
  Synonym:counterpoisecounterpose

双语例句

• For the union to work, its constitutional arrangements must serve as a counterweight to English hegemony.
  这样的联盟要成功，其宪制就必须对英格兰的主导地位起到牵制。
• This negative review is a counterweight to the praise the book has won since publication.
  那篇负面的评论是对这本书出版以来所赢得的褒扬的平衡。
• And Tokyo might act as a counterweight to Washington in sensitive areas such as pharmaceuticals.
  而东京将在一些敏感领域比如药品成为对抗华盛顿的法码。
• Japan, for its part, wants to bind Russia more closely into Asia as a counterweight to China.
  从日本这方面来说，它希望让俄罗斯更紧密地融入亚洲，作为一股抗衡中国的力量。
• Its postwar bargain with France provided the motor for European integration. Its instinctive Atlanticism served as a counterweight to French resentment of us power.
  战后德国与法国达成的协定为欧洲一体化提供了动力，而德国本能的大西洋主义又抵消了法国对美国力量的怨恨。
• As Royal Bank of Scotland notes, why would China risk upsetting the European Union, a major trading partner and important counterweight to US influence?
  正如苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）指出的，中国为何要冒险扰乱欧盟的秩序呢。欧盟是中国的一个主要贸易伙伴和制衡美国影响力的一支重要力量，不是吗？
• This will be used to counterweight the capital gains argument.
  这将被用来反对资本收益论。
• A counterweight balances the rotation.
  有一个砝码平衡回转。
• Constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to.
  建立平衡或者使平衡。
• The volume and the length, in particular, of the counterweight bricks applied to the elevator are definite.
  一种电梯所使用的配重砖的体积、特别是长度是一定的。