dead weight
重量级,重量级的,重量级人物,死气沉沉
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- : the heavy, unrelieved weight of anything inert: The dead weight of the bear's body was over 300 pounds.
- : a heavy or oppressive burden or responsibility.
- : the weight of a railroad car, truck, etc., as distinct from its load or contents.
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It’s dead weight that doesn’t store energy or produce a current itself.
The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.
Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
Of course, considerations of weight have to be taken into account, but the more mould round the roots the better.
When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.
Results are in terms of bulk of precipitate, which must not be confused with percentage by weight.
The weight percentage can be found by referring to Purdy's tables, given later.