absolute

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ab·so·lute1 /ˈæbsəluːt/ ●●○ S3 adjective  1  COMPLETELYcomplete or total 完全的；彻底的 I have absolute confidence in her. 我对她充满信心。 We don’t know with absolute certainty that the project will succeed. 我们没有绝对的把握这个项目一定会成功。2  [only before noun] especially British English informal used to emphasize your opinion about something or someone 十足的；绝对的〔用于强调〕 Some of the stuff on TV is absolute rubbish. 电视上播放的有些东西简直就是垃圾。 How did you do that? You’re an absolute genius. 你是怎么做的？ 你绝对是个天才。 That meal last night cost an absolute fortune. 昨晚那顿饭花了一大笔钱。3  CERTAINLY/DEFINITELYdefinite and not likely to change 确实的，无疑的 We need absolute proof that he took the money. 我们需要确凿的证据，证明他拿了钱。4  LIMITnot restricted or limited 不受限制[约束]的 an absolute monarch 专制君主 Parents used to have absolute power over their children. 过去父母对孩子有绝对权力。5  true, correct, and not changing in any situation 绝对的，不会改变的 You have an absolute right to refuse medical treatment. 你有绝对权利，可以拒绝接受治疗。6  in absolute terms COMPAREmeasured by itself, not in comparison with other things 从绝对意义上说 In absolute terms wages have risen, but not in comparison with the cost of living. 从绝对意义上说，工资是提高了，但同生活费用相比较的话，其实没有提高。

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absolute• Reliance was also placed upon the power of absolute and immediate distress in the statute.• As long as Robert Hirsh is alive, deejays will never be at the absolute bottom of the barrel.• No one can say with absolute certainty that the oil is there.• April 10 is the absolute deadline.• The show was an absolute disaster the first night.• I know of no primitive people anywhere that either rejects and despises conflict or represents warfare as an absolute evil.• In absolute figures, he/she had more.• His office is an absolute mess.• This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure.• an absolute standard of morality• Oh, and Cal, Agnes sounds like an absolute winner.• The technique allows them to chill atoms to a temperature as low as a millionth of a degree above absolute zero.absolute2 noun [countable]  something that is considered to be true or right in all situations 绝对真理 She believed in the importance of moral absolutes. 她认为道德上的绝对准则十分重要。

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absolute• If there ever was an absolute, this comes close to being one of them.• Species can, in the new world of the molecules, no longer be seen as absolutes.• In business, there are very few absolutes.• As a religion humanism affirms some important absolutes.• Sometimes priorities can be expressed in absolute terms but at other times absolutes are impossible.• Communities need absolutes, ideals of truths, transcendent sources of authority which are unchanged and unchangeable.• If there are no absolutes or eternal values, then the moral imperative behind such movements evaporates into thin air.• By declaring a set of absolutes, it supplies standards as well as goals for both individuals and institutions.• But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes.Origin absolute1 (1300-1400) Latin past participle of absolvere; → ABSOLVE

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ab‧so‧lute¹ S2 W3 /ˈæbsəluːt/ adjective1. complete or total:
    I have absolute confidence in her.
    We don’t know with absolute certainty that the project will succeed.
2. [only before noun] especially British English informal used to emphasize your opinion about something or someone:
    Some of the stuff on TV is absolute rubbish.
    How did you do that? You’re an absolute genius.
    That meal last night cost an absolute fortune.
3. definite and not likely to change:
    We need absolute proof that he took the money.
4. not restricted or limited:
    an absolute monarch
    Parents used to have absolute power over their children.
5. true, correct, and not changing in any situation:
    You have an absolute right to refuse medical treatment.
6. in absolute terms measured by itself, not in comparison with other things:
    In absolute terms wages have risen, but not in comparison with the cost of living.

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absolute² noun [countable]
something that is considered to be true or right in all situations:
    She believed in the importance of moral absolutes.