clout
英 [kla?t]
美 [kla?t]
- n. 破布；敲打；影響力；勢力
- vt. 給…打補釘；猛擊
- n. (Clout)人名；(法)克盧
助記提示
1. clap out => clout => 一巴掌把他打出去。
2. Klout是一家衡量用戶在Twitter,Facebook,Google+,LinkedIn,Foursquare,Wikipedia等社交網絡上影響力指數的創業公司。
3. Klout，一個專門檢視你網路影響力大小的網站，其名稱是取英文的諧音Clout（影響力），它透過你與朋友互動范圍的廣度、所發布訊息的回應率以及影響到高Klout數值的人次來評估你實際的網路影響力
中文詞源
clout 猛擊，影響力詞源同clod,clot,cloud.原指大塊狀的東西。
英文詞源
- clout
- clout: [OE] In Old English, a clout was a patch of cloth put over a hole to mend it. Hence in due course it came to be used simply for a ‘piece of cloth’, and by further extension for a ‘garment’ (as in ‘Ne’er cast a clout till May be out’). However, the reason for its colloquial application to ‘hit, blow’, which dates from the 14th century, is not known, and indeed this may be an entirely different word. As for the word’s ultimate antecedents, it probably comes, along with cleat, clot, cluster, and clutter, from a prehistoric Germanic base *klut-, *kleut-, *klaut-.
=> cleat, clot, cluster, clutter - clout (n.)
- Old English clut "lump of something," also "patch of cloth put over a hole to mend it," from Proto-Germanic *klutaz (cognates: Old Norse klute "kerchief," Danish klud "rag, tatter," Frisian klut "lump," Dutch kluit "clod, lump"); perhaps related to clot (v.).
In later use "a handkerchief," also "a woman's sanitary napkin." Sense of "a blow" is from c. 1400 early 14c., from the verb. Sense of "personal influence" is 1958, on the notion of "punch, force." - clout (v.)
- "to beat, strike," early 14c., from clout (n.), perhaps on the notion of hitting someone with a lump of something, or from the "patch of cloth" sense of that word (compare clout (v.) "to patch, mend," mid-14c.). Related: Clouted; clouting.
雙語例句
- 1. The two firms wield enormous clout in financial markets.
- 兩家公司在金融市場有非常大的影響力。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I was half tempted to give one of them a clout myself.
- 我自己都特別想給他們某個人一拳。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The queen may have privilege but she has no real political clout.
- 女王有特權,但無真正的政治影響力.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. If the photocopier stops working just give it a clout.
- 如果那部影印機停止運轉的話就敲它一下.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Mr Sutherland may have the clout needed to push the two trading giants into a deal.
- 薩瑟蘭先生也許有能力促使兩大貿易巨頭達成協議。
來自柯林斯例句