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Precisely 副词 Meeting Adv Graded   [Adv   [Emphasis Pri'saisli Adv

英语单词 precisely
英美音标 [pri'saisli]
中文释义 adv.正好,确实(表示强调);精准地
vocab简明 The adverb precisely describes something done with complete accuracy or perfection. When you speak precisely, you pronounce each word completely and clearly — and you say exactly what you mean.
vocab扩展 Something that's done precisely is done with great care, the way you'd set the table according to your grandmother's demands, precisely following her instructions about where knives and forks should go. You can also use precisely to tell about an exact time, like meeting a friend under the big clock at precisely 12:30. On its own, precisely can substitute for yes or exactly.
真题原句 Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who, according to the two-step-flow theory, are supposed to drive social epidemics by influencing their friends and colleagues directly.

Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human.
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[ADV-GRADED 副词]精确地;准确地 Precisely means accurately and exactly.
  [ADV with v]
  • Nobody knows precisely how many people are still living in the camp...

    没有人确切知道还有多少人仍住在露营地。

  • The meeting began at precisely 4.00 p.m...

    会议于下午4点整开始。

  • Breakfast television arrived in British life precisely a decade ago.

    准确地说,早间电视节目于10年前进入英国人的生活。

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[ADV-GRADED 副词]正好,恰恰,确实地(表示强调) You can use precisely to emphasize that a reason or fact is the only important one there is, or that it is obvious.
  [ADV with cl/group]
  [emphasis]
  • Children come to zoos precisely to see captive animals...

    孩子们到动物园就是为了看圈养的动物。

  • That is precisely the result the system is designed to produce.

    那恰恰是设计该系统时所希望达到的结果。

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[ADV 副词]确实如此;一点没错 You can say 'precisely' to confirm in an emphatic way that what someone has just said is true.
  [as reply]
  [emphasis]
  • 'Did you find yourself wondering what went wrong?' — 'Precisely.'

    “你是不是自己也在想哪儿出了问题?”——“确实如此。”

来源 2010.3

Tags: 单词::2010, 单词::2012

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