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heavyweight

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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heav·y·weight /ˈheviweɪt/ noun [countable]  1 IMPORTANTsomeone or something that is very important or has a lot of influence 重量级人物,有影响力的人物[事物],要人 one of the heavyweights of the movie industry 电影业巨子之一2. DSOa boxer who weighs more than 91 kilograms, and who belongs to the heaviest weight class of boxers 重量级拳击手〔体重在86.18公斤以下,属于最重的级别〕
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heavyweightHe was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer.I am over six foot tall and a former heavyweight boxing champion.Intellectual heavyweights will be debating what is one of the most important issues or our time.He was compared to Proust and other literary heavyweights.political heavyweightsAnd just as with the customs men of Miyako, the large, square heavyweights were like children on a holiday.Pham Van Dong, perspiring as the heavyweights encircled him, now accepted a partition at the sixteenth parallel.In terms of image the heavyweights are the heavyweights.He was a thug when he came off the streets with explosive fists to become the youngest heavyweight champ ever.
From Longman Business Dictionaryheavyweightheav‧y‧weight /ˈheviweɪt/ noun [countable] a person or organization with a lot of influence and powerThe law firm represents several industry heavyweights.heavyweight adjective [only before a noun]one of the agency’s heavyweight clients
heav·y·weight nounChineseSyllable
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heavyweight
heavyweight /ˈheviweɪt/ noun [countable]
1. someone or something that is very important or has a lot of influence:
    one of the heavyweights of the movie industry
2. a boxer who weighs more than 86.18 kilograms, and who belongs to the heaviest weight class of boxers


heavy·weightBrE /ˈheviweɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈheviweɪt/ 🔊 nouna boxer of the heaviest class in normal use, weighing 79.5 kilograms or more 重量级拳击手(体重 79.5 公斤或以上)a heavyweight champion重量级拳击冠军a person or thing that weighs more than is usual 特别重的人(或物)a very important person, organization or thing that influences others 有影响力的人(或组织、事物)a political heavyweight政界要人a heavyweight journal有影响力的刊物