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

• 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。
• Her advice has frequently been less than wholly helpful.
  她的建议往往毫无帮助。
• These people are not wholly reliant on Western charity
  这些人并非完全依赖西方慈善团体。
• If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
  假若我失败了，完全归咎于我自己。
• 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。
• For urban areas this approach was wholly inadequate
  对于市区来说，这种办法根本不会奏效。
• The accusation is wholly without foundation.
  这项指控完全没有依据。
• He has invented a wholly factitious story about his past.
  他编造了一个关于他的过去的完全虚假的故事。
• You are not wholly to blame.
  不应该完全怪你。
• 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。