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单词 clout
释义
clout
verb[T]
informal
uk
/klaʊt/us
/klaʊt/
tohitsomeone or something with thehandor with aheavyobject:
（用手或重物）猛打，猛击，敲
Quigley clouted mesmartlyacrossthesideof thehead.奎格利狠狠地冲着我的头部一侧打了一下。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hitting and beating
  • at-risk
  • bangsomeoneup
  • basher
  • bashing
  • battered
  • belabour
  • brain
  • bunch
  • butt
  • deck
  • hell
  • kick
  • knock
  • knocksomeone'sblock offidiom
  • lamp
  • mess
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clout
noun
uk
/klaʊt/us
/klaʊt/

cloutnoun(POWER)

[U]
powerandinfluenceover otherpeopleorevents:
权势；影响力
The Queen may haveprivilegebut shehasnorealpoliticalclout.女王可以享有特权，但没有真正的政治权力。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Power and intensity
  • ascendant
  • be (as) solid as a rockidiom
  • beef
  • brunt
  • cast iron
  • counterforce
  • depth
  • grunt
  • intensity
  • invincibility
  • invulnerability
  • juggernaut
  • keenness
  • kick-ass
  • robustness
  • stridency
  • sturdiness
  • superintensity
  • superstrength
  • virulence
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cloutnoun(HIT)

[C]informal
theactofhittingsomeone or something withyourhandor with aheavyobject:
（用手或重物）猛打，猛击，敲
If thephotocopierstopsworking, justgiveitaclout.要是复印机停止运转，拍它一下就好了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hitting and beating
  • at-risk
  • bangsomeoneup
  • basher
  • bashing
  • battered
  • belabour
  • brain
  • bunch
  • butt
  • deck
  • hell
  • kick
  • knock
  • knocksomeone'sblock offidiom
  • lamp
  • mess
  • swing
  • wallop
  • whop
  • whup
See more results »
(Definition ofcloutfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

clout| American Dictionary

clout
noun[U]
us
/klɑʊt/

cloutnoun[U](POWER)

powerandinfluenceover otherpeopleorevents:
Thesmallfirmsbanded together so they would have more clout in Washington.
clout
verb[T]
infml
us
/klɑʊt/

cloutverb[T](HIT)

tohitsomeoneheavilywith thehandor anobject
(Definition ofcloutfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofclout

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He gave them drink and food; costly goods he gave them all: capes without price, and valuable breech clouts, and devices, and costly shields.
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Clout's words, both these unfortunate patients and humanity require.
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Is it reasonable to expect a man you are clouting on the jaw to offer you his wage packet?
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The first, a simple one, has often been discussed here—that it used to be erroneously believed that clouting the trade unions was a vote winner.
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There may be a row at that very moment, and it is usually the innocent ones who get clouted and not the guilty ones.
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They do not engage in it lightly, because it also clouts them economically.
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Has the thoughts unravel, he ends up injuring himself by clouting the wall out of agony.
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They were also active elsewhere, since media ownership invests some politicalclout.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They had considerablecloutin the area and had a trust registered in their names.
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Conversely, these followers were dependent on their chief for maintenance, their prospects connected with his largesse and politicalclout.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The best known architects have thecloutand the influence necessary to experiment with and to modify standards.
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Second, politicalcloutas well as economic power has shielded this group from pastoralists rancor.
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In most developing countries, such groups do not exist, or do not have the necessary political and financialclout.
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In battle the men wore red cedar armour and helmets, and breech clouts made from cedar.
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Citizens in over-represented, poor and rural districts may use their politicalcloutto secure policy interventions that improve their economic welfare.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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