weigh是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 称…重量， 称； 重达； 考虑， 权衡，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Mangles was equally busy in coaling the vessel, that she might weigh anchor at the same time.
-- Whether or no, I weigh anchor."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles glared at him and answered, 'Dog, talk not to me neither of knees nor parents; would that I could be as sure of being able to cut your flesh into pieces and eat it raw, for the ill you have done me, as I am that nothing shall save you from the dogs it shall not be, though they bring ten or twenty-fold ransom and weigh it out for me on the spot, with promise of yet more hereafter.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight, if anyone had been bold enough to weigh him, was nearly seven hundred pounds.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ridicule he had endured for years seemed now to weigh him down, and the final blow of Blanche's treachery had robbed him of the resiliency which had made him take it so gaily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forty-seven millions of these insects are needed to weigh a grain, and yet, with the sea-salt they absorb, the solid elements of water which they assimilate, these animalculae produce limestone, and this limestone forms enormous submarine erections, of which the hardness and solidity equal granite.
-- A seat in the stern, a second seat in the middle to preserve the equilibrium, a third seat in the bows, rowlocks for the two oars, a scull to steer with, completed the little craft, which was twelve feet long, and did not weigh more than two hundred pounds.
-- The blubber, cut in parallel slices of two feet and a half in thickness, then divided into pieces which might weigh about a thousand pounds each, was melted down in large earthen pots brought to the spot, for they did not wish to taint the environs of Granite House, and in this fusion it lost nearly a third of its weight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this, Dick made no other reply than by inquiring whether the lodger held it to be consistent with the conduct and character of a gentleman to go to sleep for six-and-twenty hours at a stretch, and whether the peace of an amiable and virtuous family was to weigh as nothing in the balance.
-- Weigh heavily upon him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reason is that, your identity recognised, I wished to weigh maturely what part to act towards you.
-- "When I made the plans for this submarine vessel, I meant that nine-tenths should be submerged: consequently it ought only to displace nine-tenths of its bulk, that is to say, only to weigh that number of tons.
-- The engine, the ballast, the several accessories and apparatus appendages, the partitions and bulkheads, weigh 961.62 tons.
-- Carried away by my curiosity, I stretched out my hand to seize it, weigh it, and touch it; but the Captain stopped me, made a sign of refusal, and quickly withdrew his dagger, and the two shells closed suddenly.
-- These beautiful animals, peaceable and inoffensive, from eighteen to twenty-one feet in length, weigh at least sixteen hundredweight.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were no more sons and daughters to trouble him, and to weigh on him as an unnatural responsibility.
-- Birkin had a great subtle energy, that would press upon the other man with an uncanny force, weigh him like a spell put upon him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We prepared immediately to sail, but did not weigh that night.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to weigh the effects of it, and yet he could not see.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pa's got a few buckshot in him; but he don't mind it 'cuz he don't weigh much, any- way.
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