clouts

英 [klaʊts]

美 [klaʊts]

n.  影响力; 势力; (用手或硬物的)击，打
v.  (尤指用手)猛击，重打
clout的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 打;击
  If youcloutsomeone, you hit them.
  1. Rachel clouted him...
     雷切尔揍了他一下。
  2. The officer clouted her on the head.
     警察打了她的头。
  3. Cloutis also a noun.
     
  4. I was half tempted to give one of them a clout myself.
     我自己都特别想给他们某个人一拳。
• N-UNCOUNT 影响力;权势
  A person or institution that hasclouthas influence and power.
  1. Mr Sutherland may have the clout needed to push the two trading giants into a deal...
     萨瑟兰先生也许有能力促使两大贸易巨头达成协议。
  2. The two firms wield enormous clout in financial markets.
     两家公司在金融市场有非常大的影响力。

双语例句

• Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.& Sir Thomas Brown, British Physician
  人们在宗教中失去理智最多，在那里石头和破布成了殉难者。英国医生布朗爵士