weigh up

英 [weɪ ʌp]

美 [weɪ ʌp]

认真考虑; 权衡; 斟酌; （尤指心生怀疑时）评估，品评，对…作出评价

柯林斯词典

• → see:weigh 3
• PHRASAL VERB （尤指心生怀疑时）评估，品评，对…作出评价
  If youweighsomeoneup, you try and find out what they are like and form an opinion of them, especially when you are suspicious of them.
  1. My recruiting sergeant weighed me up when I first walked into his office.
     当我第一次走进招募官的办公室时，他考量了我一番。

双语例句

• They argue that people weigh up the health risks of smoking, the possible social and psychological benefits and the fact that it is habit-forming, before deciding whether to light up.
  他们证明，在人们决定是否点燃香烟前，就已经估量了吸烟的健康风险、可能带来的社交和心理好处以及正在形成习惯的事实。
• As the ice thickens during the winter, the blocks can weigh up to twice that.
  随着冰在严冬里逐渐变厚，冰块可以变成原来的两倍大。
• French voters get an early chance to weigh up their decision in parliamentary elections next month.
  法国选民获得一个更早的机会来掂量自己将在下个月议会选举中的决定。
• But by the end of the year, Ben Britton, 37, expects his current African lion roommates to weigh up to 40 kilograms each and no longer fit on his couch.
  但37岁的本布里顿表示，他的这三只非洲狮小室友的体重今年底可能会长到40公斤以上，到时他的沙发可就再也睡不下它们了。
• The data also comes as policy makers weigh up regulatory changes to bank pay.
  上述数据发布之际，政策制定者正在思考对银行业薪酬实施监管改革。
• A pineapple can weigh up to 10 kilograms.
  波罗蜜果实的重量可大于10公斤。
• The euro returned to its well-trodden downward path yesterday but equity, commodity and credit markets rallied from early lows as investors continued to weigh up the implications of emergency measures aimed at stabilising the eurozone announced on Monday.
  欧元昨日再度进入近期常见的下行通道，但股票、大宗商品和信贷市场从早盘的低点反弹。投资者继续掂量周一公布、旨在稳定欧元区的紧急措施的影响。
• Although the ultrasonic calls are too high-pitched for the human ear to pick up, the love songs allow females to weigh up the most suitable father for their offspring.
  尽管由于这发出的声音音频过高，人耳无法听到，然而这样的“歌声”却是为雌鼠提供了寻找最适合哺育后代对象的重要参考因素。
• The figures come as central bankers weigh up the strength of recovery ahead of interest rate decisions in the eurozone and the UK on Thursday.
  数据发布的同时，各国央行行长们正在考量复苏态势的强劲程度，随后欧元区和英国将于本周四公布利率决定。
• Google and its rivals now weigh up a number of other factors about an advert and the advertiser before deciding how much prominence to give to the message.
  目前，谷歌及其竞争对手要衡量一则广告以及广告商的许多其它因素，之后再决定给这则消息排在多显著的位置上。