单词 | 正好相反 |
释义 | 〔boring〕I had expected the book to be boring, but on the contrary it was fascinating. What ismonotonous bores because of lack of variety: 我本以为这本书很乏味,但正好相反,它竟让人着迷。 表示monotonous 的东西令人厌烦是因为缺少变化: 〔literally〕For more than a hundred years,critics have remarked on the incoherency of usingliterally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of "in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words.”In 1926, for example,H.W. Fowler cited the example 数百年来,批评家们一直在讨论literally 的一种用法的不连续性, 这一用法使其具有与主要意义“和字面意思相吻合地”正好相反的含义。例如,在1926年,H.W.福勒援引了这样一个例子 〔contrariwise〕In the opposite way or reverse order.正相反:在方向或顺序上的正好相反 |
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