weigh your words to think very carefully about what you say because you do not want to say the wrong thing〔因不想说错话而〕斟字酌句,推敲字眼:•He was weighing his words carefully.他在仔细斟酌自己的用词。weigh your ˈwordsto choose your words carefully so that you say exactly what you mean推敲;斟酌字句 |