wholly

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++whol·ly /ˈhəʊl-li $ ˈhoʊl-/ adverb formal COMPLETELYcompletely 完全地 a wholly satisfactory solution 完全令人满意的解决办法 The report claimed that the disaster was wholly unavoidable. 报告称这场灾难完全无法避免。

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wholly• This is not to say that it was wholly accurate.• The community health services then came to be financed wholly by central government.• That is, they involve a second and wholly different relation, a semantic or intentional relation between themselves and whatever they represent.• But despite their godlike powers, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea.• The oxygen extraction process may then become wholly independent of resupply from Earth.• The evidence we have is not wholly reliable.• The commission found that the officer on duty at the time was not wholly responsible.• It has not been a wholly successful policy.• She still did not wholly trust her instincts.• The city council's proposals are wholly unacceptable.• Help came from a wholly unexpected source.• In Britain at least, swearing on television has become commonplace and wholly unremarkable.

whol·ly adverbChineseSyllable

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wholly
whol‧ly /ˈhəʊl-li $ ˈhoʊl-/