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单词 absolute
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absolute
(æbsəluːt )
Word forms: absolutes
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1
Absolute means total and complete.
It's not really suited to absolute beginners.
A sick person needs absolute confidence and trust in a doctor.
Synonyms: complete, total, perfect, entire  
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2
You use absolute to emphasize something that you are saying. [emphasis]
About 12 inches wide is the absolute minimum you should consider.
I think it's absolute nonsense.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
An absolute ruler has complete power and authority over his or her country.
He ruled with absolute power.
...the doctrine of absolute monarchy based upon divine right.
Synonyms: supreme, sovereign, unlimited, ultimate  
4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
Absolute is used to say that something is definite and will not change even if circumstances change.
John brought the absolute proof that we needed.
They had given an absolute assurance that it would be kept secret.
Synonyms: definite, sure, certain, positive  
5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
An amount that is expressed in absolute terms is expressed as a fixed amount rather than referring to variable factors such as what you earn or the effects of inflation.
In absolute terms British wages remain low by European standards.
6. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Absolute rules and principles are believed to be true, right, or relevant in all situations.
There are no absolute rules.
...certain assumptions which are accepted without question as absolute truths.
Synonyms: universal, general, common, total  
7. countable noun
An absolute is a rule or principle that is believed to be true, right, or relevant in all situations.
We tend to think in absolutes.
8.  See also decree absolute
Collocations:
absolute authority
They have demanded, and been given, absolute authority.
Times, Sunday Times
She knew how to push buttons we didn't know we possessed, with a magazine-like presentation of clothes, chosen with absolute authority and absolute taste.
Times, Sunday Times
There were captains who tempered the absolute authority of the quarterdeck with humanity, yet there were also brutes.
Times, Sunday Times
Teaching conferred the arbitrary but absolute authority of tinpot dictatorships, and was bound to go to anyone's head eventually.
Times, Sunday Times
It was an exercise in conformity and submission to his absolute authority.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute beginner
Its experts can transform you from kook (absolute beginner) to wave rider in no time.
The Sun
So don't worry if you're an absolute beginner or semi-pro - they have got it covered.
The Sun
Whether you are an absolute beginner or experienced, you will be guided through with pictures and clear instructions.
The Sun
He's an absolute beginner, though, compared with the first two, who are not alive unless they're on camera.
The Sun
Musically, we were all absolute beginners.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute certainty
But others are an absolute certainty.
The Sun (2014)
Yet while we lack absolute certainty, we may nonetheless possess knowledge.
Christianity Today (2000)
Yet these statistics mostly go unchallenged, as if the mere fact that numbers are involved implies the absolute certainty of what they are saying.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Lateralizing semiological signs during seizures, however, cannot lateralize a seizure focus with absolute certainty.
Levent Öcek, İrem Fatma Uludağ, Yaşar Zorlu 2011, 'The Comparison of the Lateralizing Semiological Signs and Ictal Electoencephalographic Findings During Long Term Video-EEG Monitoring in Partial Epilepsy Patients', Epilepsi
absolute chaos
It was absolute chaos before - people were sleeping and finding shelter where they could.
The Sun
But we lost our first game in 2007 and it was absolute chaos then, too.
Times, Sunday Times
However, after he was expelled from his next school at the age of15, his life lurched into 'absolute chaos'.
Times, Sunday Times
Across them all, an array of similar systems can be found, ranging from absolute chaos on the one hand to absolute robustness on the other.
Times, Sunday Times
We had four minutes of sedate conversation then three minutes of absolute chaos.
The Sun
absolute clarity
I believe there needs to be absolute clarity in the terms and conditions so people know what they are paying for.
The Sun
They will therefore have absolute clarity on outcomes.
Times, Sunday Times
Some films leave an immediate impression, searing themselves into your consciousness with absolute clarity from the very first viewing.
Times, Sunday Times
It calms me and gives my thought process absolute clarity.
Times,Sunday Times
Those rules must be firmed up; there must be absolute clarity.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute confidence
We have absolute confidence in our independent nuclear deterrent.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
She instilled in me absolute confidence in myself.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The three of you should undoubtedly submit your reports provided your teacher promises to keep the matter in absolute confidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
absolute control
He would need absolute control over the misfiring bank.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite all his promises, he signed away absolute control over foreign policy - the final definition of a sovereign state.
The Sun
He exercises absolute control thanks to his 65 per cent share of the voting stock.
Times, Sunday Times
We can prepare and prepare and prepare, but we cannot gain absolute control.
Times, Sunday Times
I can never trust myself to not be in absolute control of myself at all times.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute conviction
Animated at times and subdued at others, he never lost his air of confi dence, the absolute conviction that he's innocent.
Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, and without any particular cogitation about the details, a solution to the mystery came into my mind with the strength of an absolute conviction.
Times, Sunday Times
I can say with absolute conviction that there will be a downturn or an upset.
Times, Sunday Times
He certainly appealed for it with absolute conviction.
Times, Sunday Times
They developed an absolute conviction of success, as opposed to this unconscious identification with failure.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute faith in
Yet her work still plays a role in blowing holes in the beliefs of those who have absolute faith in species never evolving or becoming extinct.
Times, Sunday Times
Most politicians, however — and especially ministers — have absolute faith in their own ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
I had absolute faith in him, morally, behaviourally, in this, but you worry.
Times, Sunday Times
But then they have absolute faith in the safety of their highspeed lines, with no passenger fatalities in 26 years of operation.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute genius
A stroke of absolute genius with this collection, though, are the leather straps, which come in yellow, orange and two shades of blue.
Times, Sunday Times
He was an absolute genius and, at the same time, very down to earth.
Times, Sunday Times
It takes an absolute genius to adequately do the pastor's job.
Christianity Today
She's clever, she's entertaining - she's just an absolute genius.
The Sun
Appealing to my brain was absolute genius.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute guarantee
The days were over, he said, when governments could go on borrowing indefinitely on the understanding that their statehood was an 'absolute guarantee'.
Times, Sunday Times
These have proved a sufficient safeguard to date but aren't an absolute guarantee.
Times, Sunday Times
There are obviously no absolute guarantees that human flourishing will continue to spread at such astounding rates.
Times,Sunday Times
But absolute guarantees of security are almost impossible.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute honesty
He concludes by underlining the 'absolute honesty' of his remarks.
The Times Literary Supplement
Passion-wise, you have a soul-searching moonscope that encourages absolute honesty.
The Sun
This deepens love bonds to a level of absolute honesty.
The Sun
I love his absolute honesty.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute integrity
I would define leadership as having absolute integrity, being accountable and never asking your staff to do what you would not do yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
Pride can't get far when we work out the financing and operation of our vision with absolute integrity.
Christianity Today
Don't read this biography unless you are prepared to be morally challenged by absolute integrity.
Christianity Today
The candidate will also be expected to maintain 'absolute integrity, honesty and discretion' at all times.
Times, Sunday Times
I was touched by his modesty, and in conversation by his absolute integrity.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute joy
They must be an absolute joy to live with.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The result is an absolute joy.
The Sun (2016)
He's constantly smiling and is an absolute joy to be around.
The Sun (2016)
The horse is an absolute joy to deal with.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It was a moment of absolute joy and happiness.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
absolute limit
You are pushing your body to the absolute limit.
Times, Sunday Times
I have always taken it to the absolute limit.
Times, Sunday Times
I just push myself to the absolute limit and don't think about times.
Times,Sunday Times
Every corner in every one of those laps he pushed himself to the absolute limit and beyond.
Times, Sunday Times
The week-long series of tasks are designed to push recruits to their absolute limit.
The Sun
absolute loyalty
He had the forthright and authoritarian style of an old-school union boss and demanded absolute loyalty from his staff.
Times, Sunday Times
It expects absolute loyalty and commitment to the party line, but doesn't offer it in return.
Times, Sunday Times
This sharpens work skills and makes you the one a family looks to for leadership in return for absolute loyalty.
The Sun
From that point on, nothing short of absolute loyalty would be tolerated.
Times, Sunday Times
He inspires absolute loyalty in his players, too.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute mess
His hair, everyone knew, would be an absolute mess.
Times, Sunday Times
We will have an absolute mess on our hands.
Christianity Today
This can affect your immune system and make your body get into an absolute mess.
The Sun
He's an absolute mess and it's breaking her heart.
The Sun
I was an absolute mess, with the bird's blood all over my suit.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute monarch
It's also a demandingly loquacious role — nobody tells an absolute monarch to put a sock in it.
Times, Sunday Times
She cannot resign from her power any more than an absolute monarch can abdicate.
Times, Sunday Times
In the same way, every absolute monarch in history enjoyed commissioning lavish pictures of themselves, often in allegorical guises.
Times, Sunday Times
It reminded me of a gathering of supplicants at the court of an absolute monarch (which in a way he was, albeit of a realm of two basement rooms).
Times,Sunday Times
Even though she's the absolute monarch, she doesn't believe it at her core.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute must
For any aspiring barrister, mini pupillages — typically week-long work experience placements in barristers' chambers — are an absolute must.
Times, Sunday Times
It went from being an opportunity to being an absolute must for me.
Times, Sunday Times
An inquiry isn't an option, it's an absolute must.
The Sun
If these players have anything about them, if they have any shred of moral fibre, strength of character and decency, it's an absolute must.
The Sun
Her other 'absolute must' post-flight: an oxygen facial.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute nightmare
In the old days of cutting up and splicing tape, it would have been an absolute nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times
He would score more goals and with his good feet, his athleticism, he would be an absolute nightmare.
Times,Sunday Times
But on the wing he can be an absolute nightmare for defenders.
The Sun
We have gone through a storm this week, an absolute nightmare.
The Sun
It could be because they're an absolute nightmare to drive in town.
The Sun
absolute nonsense
This was the absolute nonsense we had all feared.
The Sun
The claim was 'absolute nonsense', he told the tribunal.
Times, Sunday Times
It's absolute nonsense from a need to create crisis and drama.
Times, Sunday Times
The key to his approach was, he said, walking 'the line between absolute nonsense and seriousness'.
Times, Sunday Times
For if you have laws that are an absolute nonsense, of course you are going to get an outcry when they have to be enforced.
The Sun
absolute opposite
He's not edgy or apprehensive or out of his depth, but the absolute opposite.
Times, Sunday Times
The absolute opposite of vapid 'celebrity' — a person and author of real substance.
Times, Sunday Times
With my proposals it's the absolute opposite.
Times, Sunday Times
A concentrated spectacle of absolute deprivation and its absolute opposite.
Outlook India
Inside, it's the absolute opposite of that.
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absolute perfection
People expect absolute perfection but that will never happen.
Times, Sunday Times
So, the people who have houses here and the company that runs the place have taken a tiny slice of solidified magma, shaved it, moulded it and created absolute perfection.
Times, Sunday Times
They play the way they play with absolute perfection.
Times, Sunday Times
Achieving absolute perfection may be impossible and so, as increasing effort results in diminishing returns, further activity becomes increasingly inefficient.
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Absolute perfection was demanded from every player.
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absolute poverty
In an economic downturn it would be easy for us to turn inwards and forget that one in six people worldwide lives in absolute poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
Doubts about the importance of tackling inequality, rather than addressing absolute poverty, also emerge.
Times, Sunday Times
More than 80 per cent of the world's population then lived in absolute poverty.
Times,Sunday Times
Relevant to social and economic policy, it has no bearing on absolute poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
The global rate of absolute poverty has declined from more than 40 per cent in the 1980s to under 10 per cent today.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute power
Some politicians prefer the bad old days when power was delightful and absolute power was absolutely delightful.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
With his absolute power gone, it is going to prove much harder to win a major.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Instead, we 've let these petty officials accrue absolute power.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
absolute precision
This concern for absolute precision in craftsmanship and choice of materials was constant throughout his work.
Times, Sunday Times
There was a time when the absolute precision demanded by professional chefs was beyond the reach of domestic cooks.
Times, Sunday Times
His bed was made with absolute precision, with hospital corners that could make the fussiest nurse proud.
The Star (South Africa)
Each of these parts are solo parts, and demand absolute precision and discipline on the part of each individual performer.
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absolute priority
The first gives absolute priority to certain basic liberties over all other values.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
The absolute priority in shady areas is tone rather than colour.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But we now make safety our absolute priority.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
absolute privilege
It had been an 'absolute privilege for me and his barrister' to have been in his legal team, she added.
Times, Sunday Times
It's been an absolute privilege to work for such a caring guy.
Times, Sunday Times
He said it would be an 'absolute privilege' to take on the top job if others believed he should do it.
Times, Sunday Times
It was just an absolute privilege to be part of that race.
The Sun
Absolute privilege can be deployed in a narrow range of cases.
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absolute prohibition
As a result, this case should not be interpreted as an absolute prohibition of all compensation arrangements for clergy based on a percentage of income.
Christianity Today
Yet without the absolute prohibition against annexation, acquisitive states would have a strong incentive to obfuscate the origins of territorial acquisition.
Times, Sunday Times
The amendment removed the absolute prohibition on divorce but imposed a number of restrictions on its occurrence.
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Since the convention's entry into force, this absolute prohibition has become accepted as a principle of customary international law.
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absolute proof
You can't wait for absolute proof that will never come.
Times, Sunday Times
But it cannot reveal what they thought or why they acted; science promises absolute proof, but seldom delivers it.
Times, Sunday Times
Accordingly, we are not giving up until we have absolute proof of the existence or otherwise of the duvet, and our investigations will continue accordingly.
Times, Sunday Times
You are the absolute proof of everything she was saying!
Times, Sunday Times
Without absolute proof of harm, it argued, no action was called for.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute right
I think the university has an absolute right to decide who it admits, who it expels and who it readmits.
ST
Separate homes for the generations, state-supported when necessary, are seen as an absolute right.
Times, Sunday Times
Patients have an absolute right to stop treatment at any time and this must be respected.
Times, Sunday Times
Article 6.3(d) did not give a defendant an absolute right to examine every witness whose testimony was adduced against him.
Times, Sunday Times
The privilege against self-incrimination under article 6 was not an absolute right.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute rule
There could be no absolute rule limiting costs in that way because cases could be imagined where it would be unjust to do so.
Times, Sunday Times
I have an absolute rule that if you bring a bottle, it's opened while you're there.
Times, Sunday Times
An absolute rule of early and free publication means that there will be a publishing cost, which someone will have to pay.
Times, Sunday Times
So, for example, if such an absolute rule applied to doctors it might put the lives of patients at risk.
Times, Sunday Times
There was no absolute rule that damages could not be assessed on the basis of events which arose after the breach occurred or even after the injunction was refused.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute ruler
No one before had thought of that technique for ensuring loyalty to the absolute ruler.
Times, Sunday Times
As an absolute ruler, a monarch can choose a title.
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Although he had the trappings of an absolute ruler, he was actually bound by tradition and convention.
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As absolute rulers of the state, the family effectively owns its oil revenues and its two sovereign wealth funds.
Times, Sunday Times
Cruel, absolute rulers have been around since the beginning of civilization, but never, it seems, in such profusion.
Globe and Mail
absolute shock
It was my first experience of such widespread exposure and it came as an absolute shock.
The Sun
It's an absolute shock for everyone ...
Times, Sunday Times
The survivors were in absolute shock.
The Sun
I am in absolute shock.
The Sun
That was an absolute shock.
The Sun
absolute silence
For a few blissfully triumphant seconds there was absolute silence.
Times, Sunday Times
I know people who take a week or so off every year and spend time alone in a retreat center in absolute silence and solitude.
Christianity Today
At first, he says, you are struck by the 'absolute silence, flickering streetlights and abandoned cars and bikes'.
Times, Sunday Times
The squad listened in absolute silence, collectively emboldened.
Times, Sunday Times
There was a nonplussed silence from the interviewer, an absolute silence.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute terror
We love the way this fly-on-the wall documentary flits from moments of hilarity to absolute terror.
The Sun
I could stay up all night, sleep all day, never take a bath, be an absolute terror and tomboy.
Times, Sunday Times
Going back to her absolute terror of stupidity, she says she fears it so much 'because it's so dangerous'.
Times, Sunday Times
There was a look of absolute terror on her face.
The Sun
I don't think she seriously believed this, but it was important to maintain a sense of absolute terror to disguise the main problem, which was absolute chaos.
Times, Sunday Times
absolute truth
Deal with the issue itself in absolute truth.
Christianity Today
I grew up during the '70s and witnessed a movement ready to jettison absolute truth.
Christianity Today
This week, your chart builds up to a full moon moment of absolute truth.
The Sun
All monotheistic faiths claim to possess absolute truth.
Times, Sunday Times
And he dealt with issues and ideas with absolute truth, never compromising on either.
Christianity Today
in absolute terms
Cargo volumes fell 7.3 per cent but in absolute terms volumes increased 2.5 per cent because of contracts won the previous year.
Times, Sunday Times
So in absolute terms, more pupils with academic qualifications rather than vocational qualifications do not go to university.
Times, Sunday Times
Second, public sector pensions are enormously valuable to members, both in absolute terms and in contrast to pensions in the private sector.
Times, Sunday Times
In absolute terms, home ownership has held up well, peaking at 14.8m households in 2005 before slipping to 14.6m in 2008.
Times, Sunday Times
In absolute terms, employment has fallen by 28,000 since 2003, but that has happened as overall employment rose by three million.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 完全的, 绝对
Japanese: 完全な, 完全な
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