makeweight

英 ['meɪkweɪt]美

n. 补足重量的东西

中文词源

makeweight 充数

比喻用法。

英文词源

makeweight (n.)

also make-weight, 1690s, "small quantity of something added to make the total reach a certain weight," from make (v.) + weight.

MAKE WEIGHT. A small candle: a term applied to a little slender man. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," London, 1785]

双语例句

1. He has not been signed to the club as a makeweight to fill out the numbers.

他并不是作为凑数的成员签给俱乐部的。

来自柯林斯例句

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