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makeweight

/meyk-weyt/US // ˈmeɪkˌweɪt //UK // (ˈmeɪkˌweɪt) //

产量

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something put in a scale to complete a required weight.
    • : anything added to supply a lack.

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Examples

  • They want to use you as a makeweight in their game of wresting from the Russian workers their dearly-won liberty.

  • I carefully noted all flaws, however slight, in each pipkin of his warehouse and set all such damaged goods aside as a makeweight.

  • It opened without the intended makeweight, and the court of France was less inclined to make concessions for a peace.

  • And then, as a makeweight in the bargain, the venal sacristan placed in my hands the head of Charlemagne.

  • Hitherto the supernatural has always been the makeweight of human ignorance; is it, in truth, this and nothing else?