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TEM8 GMAT
外刊例句
- Even flats with less hefty price tags have been hard to shift lately.
即便是价格不那么高昂的公寓近来也难以出手。
——《经济学人》 - I’ve whined, begged and offered a hefty security deposit trying to change her mind.
我苦苦哀求,希望网开一面,甚至表示愿意缴纳高额保证金,只求她能改变心意。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[adjective] large and heavy
[形容词] 又大又重的
深入解读
Hefty 一词由名词 heft (重量)+形容词后缀 -y 构成,1866年起开始在英语里用来形容人或物体“大而重的”,强调一眼就可以看出或者用手握住便可以感觉到的,比如:
- 那个迎宾员的两个兄弟都是四十多岁,身高体壮。
The usher's brothers were both hefty men in their forties. - 那个身材高大的女人戴上头盔,跨坐在摩托车上,然后全速驾车行驶。
The hefty woman pulled on her helmet and straddled the motorbike, then drove along at full throttle.
一般来说,高大健硕的人因为力量大的缘故,手脚也会比较重,所以 hefty 也可以用来形容“有力的、猛烈的”,比如:
- 他猛踢了一下门,并在门底下塞一个楔子让门敞开着。
He gave the door a hefty kick and pushed a wedge under the door to keep it open.
不过从上面两个外刊例句不难看出, hefty 除了用于形容尺寸和力量以外,还常常用来形容价格、数额等,表示“很大的、超出一般的、相当可观的”,强调令人印象深刻,比如:
- 该行将倒闭的公司处理掉了它的部分资产,得到了一笔可观的利润。
The moribund company divested itself of some of its assets and made a hefty profit. - 她的工资将猛增13%。
Her wage will go up by a hefty 13 percent.
名著用例
I could not help thinking that Colonel MacAndrew might have some difficulty in doing this, since Strickland had struck me as a hefty fellow, but I did not say anything.
我禁不住想,麦克安德鲁上校做这件事并不很容易,因为思特里克兰德身强力壮,给我留下的印象很深,但是我并没有说什么。
出自威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆(William Somerset Maugham)的长篇小说《月亮和六便士》(The Moon and Sixpence)。该小说以法国印象派画家保罗·高更的生平为素材,描述了一个原本平凡的伦敦证券经纪人思特里克兰德,突然着了艺术的魔,抛妻弃子,绝弃了旁人看来优裕美满的生活,奔赴南太平洋的塔希提岛,用画笔谱写出自己光辉灿烂的生命,把生命的价值全部注入绚烂的画布的故事。
同近义词
- burly: (of a person) large and strong; heavily built
- sturdy: (of a person or their body) strongly and solidly built
- husky: (of a person) big and strong