heft

1. V-T If you heft something, you lift it upward. 擧起

Emmy straightened, hefting her burden. 艾米挺直身子，擧起了身上的擔子。

He hefted the heavy camera up onto his shoulder. 他把重重的相機扛到了自己的肩上。

2. N-UNCOUNT The heft of something is its weight or bulk. 重量; 躰積

...a friendly wireless Internet gadget about the size and heft of a thick pork chop. ...一個好用的無線網絡小裝置，和一份厚豬排的重量大小差不多。

3. N-UNCOUNT If something such as an idea or argument has heft, it has the power to influence or impress people. (觀點、辯論等的)分量; 影響力; 重要性

Goldstone wished Tom Hill were there to add heft to his argument. 戈德斯通曾希望湯姆·希爾能在那裡給他的辯論增加分量。

The 155-page American edition of the book packs the intellectual heft of a much longer text. 此書的美國版本衹有155頁，但具有加長版的知智分量。