wielding
present participle ofwield
| 单词 | wielding |
| 释义 | wielding present participle ofwield wield verb[T] uk/wiːld/us/wiːld/C2 toholdaweaponortoolandlookas if you are going to use it: She wasconfrontedby a man wielding aknife. wield influence, power, etc. C2 to have a lot ofinfluenceorpowerover otherpeople: He still wieldsenormousinfluenceinpolitics. Using and misusing
Examplesofwieldingwielding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. They were patrons of academic colleges, hospitals, chantries,wieldinglarge sums of money and the ability to mould institutions in to the future. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, for a court to have the potential ofwieldingreal power, its jurisdiction must envelop salient political, social, and economic questions. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, the 1920s 'was a time when women were engaged in the transformative stage fromwieldingin-uence to exercising power' (p. 9). From theCambridge English Corpus This is a thinking person's guide to usage, beside which many other books look like nannies dishing out blancmange or schoolmasterswieldingthe cane. From theCambridge English Corpus It also promises something to those who have the responsibility ofwieldingpower over others. From theCambridge English Corpus There was a positivewieldingof power over the processes of social and cultural reproduction. From theCambridge English Corpus Significantly, after the conclusion of the expedition, they were rewarded by being allowed to go onwieldinga great deal of power and a conspicuous share of wealth. From theCambridge English Corpus Fidel has no more use for thosewieldingcarrots than for thosewieldingsticks. From theCambridge English Corpus Ifwieldinga more widely validated language gives women a major avenue of social advancement, it makes sense that women would be more critical of the local language around them. From theCambridge English Corpus Women (some of them very obscure figures) and minorities are everywhere to be seen, and not justwieldingstethoscopes or chain saws. From theCambridge English Corpus Wieldinga mixture of filth and germ theory, and assorted forms of contagionism, sanitary engineers implored local authorities to abandon tipping and adopt burning before the visitation of an epidemic. From theCambridge English Corpus Hence, in switching between the languages, par ticipants allegedly exploit these relations for purposes ofwieldingpower. From theCambridge English Corpus The net result is that the animal panics and begins to struggle and so the stickwieldingbecomes more vigorous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The military cliques which have perpetrated the coup and arewieldingpower arbitrarily must be stopped. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English The fact that thosewieldingpower are men conditions the way in which decisions are made that affect all our lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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