wholly

英 [ˈhəʊlli]

美 [ˈhoʊlli]

adv.  完全地; 全面地; 整体地

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Collins.2 / BNC.3314 / COCA.6835

牛津词典

adv.

• 完全地；全面地；整体地
  completely
  1. wholly inappropriate behaviour
     完全失当的行为
  2. The government is not wholly to blame for the recession.
     这次衰退不能完全怨政府。

柯林斯词典

• ADV 完全地;完整地
  You usewhollyto emphasize the extent or degree to which something is the case.
  1. While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations...
     尽管这两人年龄上只相差几天，他们却好像是属于完全不同时代的人。
  2. For urban areas this approach was wholly inadequate...
     对于市区来说，这种办法根本不会奏效。
  3. The accusation is wholly without foundation.
     这项指控完全没有依据。

英英释义

adv

• to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
  1. he was wholly convinced
  2. entirely satisfied with the meal
  3. it was completely different from what we expected
  4. was completely at fault
  5. a totally new situation
  6. the directions were all wrong
  7. it was not altogether her fault
  8. an altogether new approach
  9. a whole new idea
  Synonym:entirelycompletelytotallyallaltogetherwhole

双语例句

• My heart is and has been wholly yours.
  我的心是你的，而且已经完全是你的了。
• Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.
  我们的情报部门人员缺乏训练，机构臃肿，简直毫无用处。
• Unhappily the facts do not wholly bear out the theory
  令人遗憾的是，这些事实并不能完全证明该理论。
• Racism is wholly unacceptable under any circumstances
  无论在何种情况下，种族主义都是千万要不得的。
• This company is wholly owned by the brothers li.
  这家公司专属李氏兄弟。
• Austerity, renunciation, negation were not wholly new to me;
  苦行，放弃，否定，这些对我并不是全新的东西。
• Neither he nor you are wholly right.
  他不全对，你也不全对。
• Not wholly devoid of an idea that he might behold an evil spirit.
  并非完全没有料到他可能又要看到一个邪魔了。
• Now things are wholly changed.
  现在，情形完全改变了。
• In my opinion, the decision was wholly justified.
  我认为，这个决定完全合理。