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

• 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。
• He can weigh up anyone in the first few minutes and he is hardly ever deceived in a man.
  他能够在开头几分钟内就可以掂量出一个人的好坏，而且几乎从未把人看错过。
• 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。
• Women were a little more complicated and likely to weigh up the pros and cons before settling on their choice.
  而女性则会想得多一些，她们在做决定前可能就要把利弊权衡一番。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• One of the key aspects of the system architect's role is to weigh up conflicting requirements and decide on a solution, often by trading off one aspect against another.
  系统架构师角色关键的一方面就是衡量相互冲突的需求、决定解决方案，常常要牺牲一个方面来换取另一个方面。
• 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。
• 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。