喜樂美語
  1. 1rB2/ɪnˈtaɪrli/ · /ɪnˈtaɪəli/完全地

    completely, with no part left out.

    completely完全， with no part沒有任何部分 left out被漏掉

    示範例句 · Example

    I'm not entirely sure what she meant.

    逐字我不完全確定她的意思是什麼。

    「entirely」的意思是「每一個部分都算進去，一點也沒有剩下」。它跟形容詞 entire（整個的）是一家人，所以這個畫面可以想成「一整塊，沒有缺角」——made entirely of paper 就是「從頭到尾都是紙」。英文裡它最愛出現在兩個地方：一個是否定句 not entirely（不是每一點都…，也就是「不完全」，語氣反而變得客氣），另一個是 almost entirely（幾乎全部）。跟 completely 比，entirely 更常用在這兩種「留一點空間」的句子裡。

    常見搭配

    • not entirely sure

      不太確定

      not completely certain — a polite way to say you are unsure

      I'm not entirely sure the bus stops here.

    • entirely different

      完全不同

      different in every way, not just a little

      The two songs tell entirely different stories.

    • almost entirely

      幾乎全部

      nearly all of it, but not quite all

      The path was almost entirely covered in leaves.

    • depend entirely on something

      完全依靠某事物

      to need one thing completely, with no other support

      The garden depends entirely on rain.

    • made entirely of something

      完全用某材料做成

      made using only that one material

      The little house was made entirely of cardboard.

    • consist entirely of something

      完全由…組成

      to have nothing in it except that thing

      The team consists entirely of students from our school.

    • something else entirely

      完全是另一回事

      a completely different thing from the one you were talking about

      I thought he wanted help, but he wanted something else entirely.

core核心畫面

Picture a box ticked all the way across with nothing left over: not mostly, not nearly — the whole of it. The adverb closes the door on any remaining part, which is why it so often turns up when someone wants to leave no room for doubt.

可以想成：一格從頭填到尾、沒有留下任何空隙——不是大部分，也不是差不多，而是整個。這個副詞把「還有一點沒算到」的可能性關掉了，所以說話的人想把話講死、不留餘地時特別常用它。

同家族的字

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

entirelyadv/ɪnˈtaɪəli/

  • 1

    To the full or entire extent.

    • It is entirely up to you where we go, as I’ll be happy with anywhere.
    • The cake hadn’t entirely been eaten, so some was saved for later.
  • 2

    To the exclusion of others; solely.

    • I'm entirely to blame.
    • This part of the park is used entirely by the workers; everyone else will have to go to the other side.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。