1.影響力
OPEC has the kind of leverage a superpower might yearn for.
石油輸出國家組織具有超級強權冀望的那種影響力。
2.籌碼
The Yankees’ recent urgency gave him lever-age in negotiations.
洋基隊最近的迫切需求讓他有談判的籌碼。
The manufacturers seem to have most of the leverage.
這些廠商似乎有最多的籌碼。
leverage (vt)
1.運用
The United States does not know how to leverage its economic clout.
美國不知道如何運用它的經濟力量。
2.利用
He wants to leverage his threat of running for his own interests.
他想利用參選的威脅謀取私人利益。To reduce such stunning disparities, they must be able to leverage the new technologies into faster growth.
要縮減如此驚人的差距，他們必須能夠利用新的資訊科技達成更快的成長。
Emulating Beijing’s reforms, officials in Hanoi have leveraged their human capital by fostering the development of a booming light-manufacturing industry.
仿效北京的改革，河內的官員已經利用它們的人力資源促進欣欣向榮的輕工業發展。
3.促進
Developing countries are finding ways to leverage advances in information technology.
開發中國家正尋找方式促進資訊科技的升級。
4.推
Maoist-backed mass protests leveraged them into Nepal’s political mainstream.
毛派支持的民眾示威把他們推入尼波爾的政治主流裏。
