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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++name·ly /ˈneɪmli/ ●●○ adverb formal or written  EXACTused when saying the names of the people or things you are referring to 即,也就是 Three students were mentioned, namely John, Sarah and Sylvia. 有三名学生被提到,即约翰、萨拉和西尔维娅。
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namelyIn fact, East Anglia's sickness prevalence rate is 15.6 higher than the predicted 189.4, namely 205.One of the most important stages has yet to be started, namely beginning to fit the person into their new job.And so there is psychokinesis, mind acting upon a material object, namely brain cells.A further central belief has recently begun to appear as equivocal, namely loyalism itself.Storni used earlier poetic movements, namely Romanticism and modernism, as models for her poetry.Of one thing I am fairly certain, namely that the glassfibre Seayak will carve through waves better.Now we witnessed, at the beginning of Chapter 3, a certain extraordinarily complicated-looking set, namely the Mandelbrot set.The issues are in two main clusters, namely the safety and the pricing and procurement of drugs.Tilth: You want your soil to have good tilth, namely to be crumbly and easy to work.
name·ly adverbChineseSyllable
the used Corpus of the when saying names


namely
namely /ˈneɪmli/ adverb formal or written
 Word Family: verb: name, rename; adjective: named ≠ unnamed, nameless; noun: name; adverb: namely
used when saying the names of the people or things you are referring to:
    Three students were mentioned, namely John, Sarah and Sylvia.


name·lyBrE /ˈneɪmli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈneɪmli/ 🔊 adverbused to introduce more exact and detailed information about sth that you have just mentioned 即;也就是We need to concentrate on our target audience, namely women aged between 20 and 30. 我们须针对我们的目标观众,即年龄在 20 到 30 岁之间的妇女。🔊🔊