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。
• Even as pundits continue to weigh up the renminbi, debating the 'IFS' and 'buts' and worrying about market bubbles and slowing Chinese growth, the currency is being adopted apace, driven by real business demand.
  尽管专家们仍在权衡使用人民币的利弊、争论各种“如果”和“但是”的情形、担心市场泡沫和中国经济增长放缓，但在实际商业需求的推动下，人民币正迅速被市场接纳。
• 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。
• 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。
• But before laughing and jeering too much, one ought to weigh up the issues raised by this statement.
  但是在大肆嘲笑之前，人们应该先衡量一下这份声明所提出的问题。
• But not many of them weigh up the most extreme scenarios: how would the world fare if either the flow of migrants were to slow down radically or, conversely, there were no legal limits on migration at all?
  但许多人未去衡量最为极端的情景：如果移民流动彻底放缓，或飞速攀升，对移民的法律限制不复存在，那么世界移民的进展状况又将会如何？
• 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。
• You have to weigh up getting out maybe 30 cents down against carrying the cost of the trade on your balance sheet with no idea what might happen next, said one banker.
  你必须权衡一下，一方面是承受3毛钱的亏损脱手，另一方面是在资产负债表上背负这笔交易的成本，不知道接下来会发生什么，一名银行家表示。
• 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。
• 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。