makeweight
n. 补足重量的东西, (喻)平衡力, 无关重要的人, 非重要的论点
发音
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词形变化
makeweights
复数
makeweights
别名
make-weight
释义与例句
n.
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1.
Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
1893, Richard Le Gallienne, in a publisher's report on stories by Ernest Dowson, quoted in Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, page 88. I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration.
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2.
Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights.
词汇关系
词源
From make + weight.
来源：wiktionary