| 单词 | altogether |
| 释义 | altogether (ɔːltəgeðəʳ ) 1. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B2 You use altogether to emphasize that something has stopped, been done, or finished completely. [emphasis] When Artie stopped calling altogether, Julie found a new man. His tour may have to be cancelled altogether. Clinical test results are certainly encouraging - 10 per cent of wrinkles disappear altogether. 2. adverb [ADVERB adjective/adverb] You use altogether in front of an adjective or adverb to emphasize a quality that someone or something has. [emphasis] The choice of language is altogether different. Today's celebrations have been altogether more sedate. Rebuilding the team is an altogether bigger challenge. Synonyms: completely, all, fully, entirely 3. adverb [with neg] You use altogether to modify a negative statement and make it less forceful. We were not altogether sure that the comet would miss the Earth. Not altogether surprisingly, the Scottish League took a dim view of this behaviour. 'I'm not altogether a fool,' she said gruffly. 4. adverb B2 You can use altogether to introduce a summary of what you have been saying. Altogether, it was a delightful town garden, peaceful and secluded. Synonyms: on the whole, generally, mostly, in general 5. adverb B1+ If several amounts add up to a particular amount altogether, that amount is their total. Britain has a total of five thousand military personnel in the area altogether. Altogether seven inmates escaped by scaling a wall and climbing down scaffolding. Collocations: altogether different A war of intrigue, conducted by one tyrannous power against another, was altogether different. Times, Sunday Times (2006) But the atmosphere is altogether different and less menacing. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Now it's become known for something altogether different. The Sun (2013) Back at the forum, happiness was being scrutinised from an altogether different angle. Times, Sunday Times (2010) This is an altogether different form of double life, and one that I find intriguing. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Apparently it even holds up the roof, an altogether unexpected bonus. Times, Sunday Times Photography made him discern another altogether unexpected side of him and has become the premise of his artistic exploration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, he's merely given us an extremely intriguing, sporadically gripping, undeniably fearless and altogether unexpected piece of his troubled soul. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The captain will be put up in front of the world's media before every game, and asked to confront some of the questions that players often prefer to avoid altogether. Times, Sunday Times Junk meat such as hotdogs are ideally best avoided altogether. The Sun Strong colours don't need to be avoided altogether. Times, Sunday Times Grapefruit juice has a similar effect to amlodipine and should be avoided altogether if you take simvastatin. Times, Sunday Times Not that mockery should be avoided altogether. Times, Sunday Times Don't ban altogether, but keep as a treat. The Sun The extra capacity would allow night flights and noisier aircraft to be banned altogether. Times, Sunday Times Bathroom and lavatory visits are limited and sometimes banned altogether. Times, Sunday Times He wants safeguards built into the heart of these devices and, in some cases, their banning altogether. Times, Sunday Times Hope it's banned altogether soon. The Sun In all, 7.4 per cent of trains were at least 30 minutes late or cancelled altogether. Times, Sunday Times Collections could be cut back to once a month or cancelled altogether. The Sun For ten years (1969-1979) the festival stopped awarding prizes, and in 1973, 1977 and 1978 the festival was cancelled altogether. Times, Sunday Times Analysts are speculating about what will be the next agreed buyout to be renegotiated, or cancelled altogether. Times, Sunday Times Sources close to the situation said the listing could be postponed or cancelled altogether if market conditions are not right. Times, Sunday Times While the cascade will be greatly reduced, it won't cease altogether. The Sun Soon they will cease altogether and enter a tumultuous moult, exhausted. Times, Sunday Times This results in rapid expansion but eventually the couple know each so well that the opportunities for further expansion begin to decrease, or cease altogether. Times, Sunday Times The report suggested that impeachment proceedings should cease altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, after 2 to 3 years, maintenance inputs decrease substantially or cease altogether as the grass cover closes up and the plot becomes a sustainable fodder source. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If it cannot reach a deal with its workers over reduced pay and conditions it could close altogether. Times, Sunday Times Should it develop an online offering to expand, or close altogether? Times, Sunday Times The remaining branches would be closed to new business and eventually close altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recently she closed altogether and intends to try her luck in more modest premises near the bus station. Times, Sunday Times One said that traffic was at a standstill in the town, while a second said he had been advised that the port was closed altogether. Times, Sunday Times There was a serious danger that confidence in the global banking system would collapse altogether. Times, Sunday Times What percentage probability should it give to the chance that the currency might collapse altogether? Times, Sunday Times He played, feeling as though something inside him had sort of shaken loose or collapsed altogether. Times, Sunday Times One wing had collapsed altogether. The Times Literary Supplement Government programmes intended to mitigate hardship collapsed altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Orientation is but a fair-weather friend to me, and under pressure it tends to disappear altogether. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Likewise, the green plover has disappeared altogether from our farm. Times, Sunday Times (2017) This is followed by a period of considerable improvement often with symptoms disappearing altogether. The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988) The harvesting of ice did not disappear altogether. THE FROZEN WATER TRADE (2002) Perhaps branches will disappear altogether as younger generations who are completely comfortable with online banking abandon them. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Although the law remains officially in place, it seems increasingly likely that it will soon be dropped altogether. Times, Sunday Times Publishers will either have given up on them and gone back to paper, or the concept will be so familiar that the pleased-with-itself prefix will have been dropped altogether. The Times Literary Supplement For a chancellor looking to make a difference it could be dropped altogether. Times, Sunday Times As the campaign accelerated, caveats and qualifications were downplayed or dropped altogether. Times, Sunday Times Above us, the wind, which had been rippling through the shrouds and along the mainsail, dropped altogether, and we were becalmed on a glassy sea. Times, Sunday Times Yet he must not go so far as to eliminate altogether the space for human agency and spiritual currencies of the human heart. Christianity Today And eventually we hope that coronavirus can be eliminated altogether. The Sun Of course, choice cannot be eliminated altogether. The Times Literary Supplement It reverts to 40 per cent when you get to 114,950, at which point the personal allowance has been eliminated altogether, and then rises to 50 per cent at 150,000. Times, Sunday Times I suspect that office politics can never be eliminated altogether. Times, Sunday Times Be negative about a show and you will be cast into the darkness beyond the front-row seats or excluded altogether. Times, Sunday Times Some 2.8 million adults, or one in 12 households, are financially excluded altogether; not allowed even to open a bank account. Times, Sunday Times It's creating a mortgage gulf, with those with plenty of equity able to get huge loans at brilliantly low rates, but those with small deposits excluded altogether. Times,Sunday Times They focus on the relation between the source and translated texts while minimizing or excluding altogether the relation between the translated text and the receiving culture. The Times Literary Supplement Sometimes final rounds may be included, or preliminary rounds may be excluded altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, gold's contra-cyclical qualities should not be forgotten altogether and its recent run has been helped by the weakening dollar and inflation fears. Times, Sunday Times A danger exists that the ends of liberty individuality will be forgotten altogether in the means. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I may be haunted by the fear that time will mollify the intensity of our memory, that the event will be forgotten altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The silver mines which supplied the mint continued to function off and on before being forgotten altogether in the 18th century, not to be discovered again until the 20th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Furthermore, the coronavirus crisis has increased the likelihood of privacy rules being ignored altogether. Times,Sunday Times You feel hard done by; your work has been dismissed, or ignored altogether, by the established art world, an elitist club to which you have not been invited. Times, Sunday Times Or they will be ignored altogether by those who object to the posturing. Times, Sunday Times Usually they are ignored altogether. Times, Sunday Times This provides valuable insight into which features are the most eye-catching, which features cause confusion and which ones are ignored altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are numerous holes in the fence, and large gaps where the fence was missing altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two pairs of antennae are much reduced, with the second pair sometimes missing altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Parts of it, and large sections of the southern hemisphere, are missing altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The barrier walls on the north and sound ends of the amphitheater were compromised or sometimes missing altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Voice samples and sound effects were severely limited, whether shortened or missing altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The principles of inclusion are not altogether clear when so much has been previously published - though often in truncated versions. The Times Literary Supplement His motives for forming this collection are not altogether clear. The Times Literary Supplement Conditions that trigger spawning are not altogether clear, but after spending weeks congregating in the deeper channels, both males and females will begin to enter shallower inter-tidal or sub-tidal waters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it was not altogether surprising. Times, Sunday Times While the eventual answers are not altogether surprising, the twists and turns of the plot still keep the reader in suspense. Times, Sunday Times Perhaps it was not altogether surprising because she had been in peril even in the womb. Times, Sunday Times And although those who took them up were more likely to try to quit altogether, they were almost 60 per cent more likely to fail. The Sun There's no need to quit altogether but have your drink earlier. Times, Sunday Times They are pricey but cost less than cigarettes and may help you quit altogether. The Sun After 1988 he reduced the number of films in which he acted, he quit altogether after 1990. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I was thinking about quitting altogether but only told my very close and trusted friends that. The Sun The second row of split folding seats tuck behind the front row or can be removed altogether when you need to carry bulky loads. The Sun (2008) By agreeing international standards, the debit side of the equation could be removed altogether. Times, Sunday Times (2008) These give reviewing staff wide discretion, with the result that many vulnerable people are having vital home care services reduced or removed altogether. Times, Sunday Times (2006) At first managers put a warning sign on her cage but now she has been removed altogether. Times, Sunday Times (2014) I had to stop altogether at one point in my twenties. The Sun Today, a top doctor said operations at the hospital could stop altogether unless coronavirus cases go down. The Sun Time, it seems, can stretch, freeze, expand, slow down and, ultimately, stop altogether. Times, Sunday Times Nearly 30 per cent expect to cut back on clothes shopping, while 14 per cent will stop altogether. The Sun This will mean 'significant' amounts of work stop altogether. Times, Sunday Times And it will vanish altogether in less than three decades. The Sun (2011) Please don't put me in the past tense ," begged Lady Rice, `or I'll vanish altogether. SPLITTING It would not be too many stages before it vanished altogether and a bathroom would become a sine qua non for our future happiness. GOODBYE CURATE (2000) Do we integrate further or withdraw altogether from this bloc? Times, Sunday Times She announced that government funding for the federation, which had already been cut from 320,000 to 190,000 a year, will be withdrawn altogether. Times, Sunday Times Good deals are either being withdrawn altogether, or lower rates are being offered to new customers. Times, Sunday Times But they would be downright angry if their selection was withdrawn altogether under the proposed rule. Times, Sunday Times We are hearing of cases where business owners have gone to see their bank managers to renegotiate their overdrafts and have had them withdrawn altogether. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 完全地, 完全地 Japanese: 全く, 完全に |
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