makeweight

英 ['meɪkweɪt] 美
  • n. 补足重量的东西
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makeweight 充数

比喻用法。

makeweight (n.)
also make-weight, 1690s, "small quantity of something added to make the total reach a certain weight," from make (v.) + weight.
MAKE WEIGHT. A small candle: a term applied to a little slender man. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," London, 1785]
1. He has not been signed to the club as a makeweight to fill out the numbers.
他并不是作为凑数的成员签给俱乐部的。

来自柯林斯例句

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