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单词 wield
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wield
verb[T]
uk
/wiːld/us
/wiːld/
C2
toholdaweaponortoolandlookas if you are going to use it:
挥舞，握，抓着（武器或工具）
She wasconfrontedby a man wielding aknife.她受到一名持刀男子的威胁。
wield influence, power, etc.
C2
to have a lot ofinfluenceorpowerover otherpeople:
施加影响／运用权力（等等）
He still wieldsenormousinfluenceinpolitics.他在政坛仍然很有影响。
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(Definition ofwieldfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

wield| American Dictionary

wield
verb[T]
us
/wild/
to have or usepower,authority, orinfluence, or toholdand use aweapon:
Under the newcitycharter, themayorwields most of thepower.
(Definition ofwieldfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwield

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On his left, he wields the compass and square of architecture and the tools of sculpting and painting - hammer, inkpot and quill - and a painting.
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The author wields the blunt instruments of ' ' political transaction costs ' ' and ' ' induced ideological change ' ' at frequent intervals, inflicting substantial transaction costs on the reader.
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The impression was that the texts ' ' protested too much ' ' and were produced with a view to disproving the popular prejudices wielded against them.
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The modernization of state institutions afforded rulers greater power than ever before, which they wielded to silence and co-opt the ulema.
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There have been comparatively few attempts to explore ageism and the forms it takes or how it is wielded to uphold inequalities based upon age.
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In this they merely supplemented the already considerable physical force wielded by the official border security force.
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Thus, for a court to have the potential of wielding real power, its jurisdiction must envelop salient political, social, and economic questions.
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Language has long been used as a tool by which hegemonic power can be wielded over those with alternative world visions.
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Our highpowered theoretical tools must not be wielded ignorantly or unfeelingly.
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In response, nineteenth-century women of all classes wielded needles, hooks, and bobbins to an extent previously unknown.
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No government could afford to ignore the influence democratic politicians and the party press wielded in the public sphere.
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Rather, the 1920s 'was a time when women were engaged in the transformative stage from wielding in-uence to exercising power' (p. 9).
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In the absence of such criteria, arguments from 'description versus explanation' can be wielded more or less arbitrarily and as such carry no real force.
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Power most often is wielded in these accounts by male representatives of the state, of employers, or of the judicial system.
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Unlike party support, environmental interest-group pressure can be wielded more broadly on legislators and officials during and between elections.
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