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

• 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 thought is, roughly, weigh up the pleasures and pains in some appropriate way.
  只需大约衡量一下，快乐和痛苦。
• They weigh up to forty-five tons and originated 32 kilometers from the site.
  最重的可达四十五公吨，并且来自距离现址三十二公里外的地方。
• Fund managers, strategists and experts looking to the year ahead expect institutional investors to show a stronger interest in alternative asset classes as they watch the ongoing effects of the credit squeeze and weigh up the prospects for equity markets.
  展望今年，基金经理、策略师和投资专家预计，机构投资者将对另类资产类别表现出更大兴趣，目前它们正观察当前信贷紧缩的影响，并评估全球股市的前景。
• In making his decision, he has not only to consider the economic aspect, but also weigh up all the constructional advantages and disadvantages of both tunneling and the alternative method of either passing around or over the obstruction.
  决策时，不仅要考虑经济因素，还要权衡开凿隧道的利弊得失，研究绕道或者跨越障碍物的可能。
• 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。
• Japan would have to weigh up various factors before making a decision to break with the US on the issue, not least the finalisation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest trade deals in history, and a visit by Mr Abe to Washington next month.
  日本在这个问题上做出与美国分道扬镳的决定之前，将不得不权衡各种因素，包括史上最大贸易协定之一《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（Trans-PacificPartnership，简称TPP）的最终敲定，以及安倍下月访问华盛顿。
• I recently spoke to Smee and to Edwin latter, director of the link cash machine network, to weigh up the risks.
  我最近与斯米和link提款机网络的董事埃德温拉特（edwinlatter）有过交流，请他们考虑这种风险。
• 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。
• Ask these employees afterward how they felt when they met this person and use their responses to help weigh up yours.
  事后，问一问这些员工当他们见到这个人他们如何感觉，并用他们的答复来帮助你衡量一下你的答复。