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

• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Weigh up the sugar in Jin packages.
  把糖拆开分包称量，每包一斤。
• 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。
• 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。
• You have to weigh up in your mind whether to pursue the matter or not.
  你心中必须权衡一下此事是否要继续进行。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。