词汇精选：weighty的用法和辨析

一、词义辨析：

heavy,weighty

这两个形容词都可表示“重的，沉重的”之意。heavy普通用词，指重量或体积大大超过同类物体，常用作引申，多指精神上的重压等。weighty多指实际上而不是相对的沉重，引申指严重或重要。

二、参考例句：

A weighty subject.

重量单位。

Obesity is a weighty problem.

过度肥胖是一个重大问题。

This is a weighty editoriAl on education.

这是一篇关于教育的很有分量的社论。

It is weighty work, which he cannot wield by himself.

这是很有分量的工作，不是他自己能处理的。

Such weighty family obligations kept him from proposing to his sweetheart, Alma, for 8 long years.

沉重的家庭负担使他对心上人阿尔玛的求婚滞后了漫长的8年。

The following sentence is taken from the weighty judgement of a scholarly reviewer.

下列即取自一位博学的评论家的权威性文章。