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

• 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。
• A pineapple can weigh up to 10 kilograms.
  波罗蜜果实的重量可大于10公斤。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。