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。
• The thought is, roughly, weigh up the pleasures and pains in some appropriate way.
  只需大约衡量一下，快乐和痛苦。
• 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？
• Can my luggage range weigh up to30 kilos?
  我可以携带30公斤的行李吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They weigh up to forty-five tons and originated 32 kilometers from the site.
  最重的可达四十五公吨，并且来自距离现址三十二公里外的地方。