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counterweight

/koun-ter-weyt/US // ˈkaʊn tərˌweɪt //UK // (ˈkaʊntəˌweɪt) //

配重,对重,配重物,对衡

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a weight used as a counterbalance.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to balance or equip with a counterweight.

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Examples

  • For one, the United States, like much of the global community, sees India as an important counterweight to China.

  • As they entered the arena to provide a counterweight to the GOP observers inside, Reyes took down their cell-phone numbers and added them to a massive text chain.

  • The love of their people is an essential counterweight to generally unwelcoming messages from many parts of society — especially given the anxiety and depression and other co-morbidities that non-neurotypical kids deal with.

  • “The West must urgently unite to advance a counterweight to China’s tech dominance,” said committee chair Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative parliamentarian, on the report’s release.

  • The rising influence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as a counterweight to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

  • There is the fact that in many of these states Democratic legislatures are entrenched, and voters are looking for a counterweight.

  • Historically, the former Soviet Union has been a counterweight to the United States.

  • The CPR was supposed to be the progressive counterweight among the troika of parties that governed Tunisia before Sheratongate.

  • This would leave the Afghan Taliban intact as a counterweight to Indian influence in Afghanistan.

  • We at The Daily Beast seek to provide a counterweight to all this sanctimony.

  • The counterweight may be tied up, thereby opening the damper.

  • The counterweight may hence be lessened at pleasure, if the height of the pressing water-column n be increased.

  • Without this counterweight, how false would be our final summation of the evidence upon most of the great state trials!

  • But Ballantrae was afraid of a more efficient captain, who might be a counterweight to himself, and he opposed this stoutly.

  • The operation of any of these governors is usually controlled by the tension of a spring, or by a counterweight.