汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 掂量
掂量
to weigh in the hand / to consider / to ponder
估量;斟酌。
diān liàng/liáng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

用两手掂量掂量

Weigh them up in your two hands.

然后在掂量掂量这些灵感和方法的优缺点。

Then weigh up the pros and cons of those ideas as solutions.

随着价格走高,原来你会掂量掂量的地段,你就开始投更多的钱了。

As prices rose, you began spending a lot more money on places you would have thought twice about.

两位作者小心谨慎掂量开明计划能够取得的成果。

The authors are careful to temper expectations about what enlightened schemes can achieve.

知更鸟带着尺蠖飞到了其他鸟需要掂量的地方。

With the inchworm, the redbreast flew to where other birds needed to be measured.

他看见一束光芒下,有只小羊在岩柱上,正用脚掂量一株菖蒲。

He saw in a shaft of light a lamb on a pinnacle, balancing a flag on its foot.

可是,在他的新闻发布会上,人们印象深刻的却只是一个对自己言辞和斤两还尚不能掂量清楚的嫩头青。

At his news conference, the overriding impression was of a man not fully in control of his message or his material.