| 单词 | fairly |
| 释义 | fairly (feəʳli ) 1. adverb [ADVERB adjective/adverb] B1+ Fairly means to quite a large degree. For example, if you say that something is fairly old, you mean that it is old but not very old. Both ships are fairly new. We did fairly well but only fairly well. Synonyms: moderately, rather, quite, somewhat 2. adverb [ADVERB adjective/adverb] B2 You use fairly instead of 'very' to add emphasis to an adjective or adverb without making it sound too forceful. [vagueness] Were you always fairly bright at school? You've got to be fairly single-minded about it. I'll have no income and no home and will need a job fairly badly. 3. adverb [ADVERB before verb] Fairly is used to emphasize that something happens to a very great degree or extent. [emphasis] He fairly flew across the room. For him, the place is fairly boiling with humanity. Synonyms: positively, really, simply, absolutely 4. graded adverb [ADVERB before verb] B2 You use fairly to suggest that a statement is probably or possibly true, and therefore deserves to be accepted or considered. It can no doubt be fairly argued that Sir John, whose pay is linked to performance, is entitled to every penny. After I had read the book I could fairly claim to be an expert. Synonyms: deservedly, objectively, honestly, justifiably 5. See also fair usage note: Fairly, pretty, quite, and rather can all be used to modify adjectives and adverbs, but are all less strong than very. Rather and pretty are the strongest of these words and are the closest to very. Pretty, in this sense, is informal. Therefore, if you said to someone, 'Your work is pretty good' or 'Your work is rather good', they would be more likely to be pleased than if you said 'Your work is quite good' or 'Your work is fairly good'. However, rather is commonly used with words indicating negative qualities. I was feeling rather sad. It is the only one of these words than can be used with comparatives, and with too. Global warming could be rather worse than we think it will be... He was becoming rather too friendly with my ex-boyfriend. Quite is slightly stronger than fairly, and may suggest that something has more of a quality than expected. Nobody here's ever heard of it but it is actually quite common. Collocations: fairly flat Moderately easy and fairly flat across cliff paths and farmland. Times, Sunday Times If you have a fairly flat commute, simply alter your speed at the same time intervals. Times, Sunday Times While everyone else seemed to be straining, he wandered around, often enough playing fairly flat, rarely under any pressure. Times,Sunday Times It's fairly flat, but the actual undulations in the fairway move so much. Globe and Mail But the bulk of these savings are down to the dash for gas - overall, carbon emission levels have remained fairly flat. Times, Sunday Times The enormous damage caused by coalmining makes fracking look fairly innocuous. Times, Sunday Times It was fairly innocuous but that didn't stop a series of irked reviewers taking to the keyboards to express in a series of hot takes just how upset they were. Times, Sunday Times It all sounds fairly innocuous. Times, Sunday Times Her comment, though fairly innocuous, prompted more than a decade of waxing, threading and plucking my eyebrows into thin submission. Times, Sunday Times Could he in fact have been saying something fairly innocuous, that merely came out wrong? Times, Sunday Times We have a fairly large population of retired folk who cling to driving long after they should have stopped doing so. Times, Sunday Times There are grounds for believing these three represent the tip of a fairly large iceberg. Times, Sunday Times It must have been a fairly large bird. Christianity Today It’s a wonderful way to explore a fairly large area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The inquest, which continues, was told that immobility was a significant factor in the development of 'fairly large' blood clots. Times, Sunday Times I am back - admittedly after a fairly lengthy blip - to drinking moderately. Times, Sunday Times This requires the keeping of detailed records and some fairly lengthy calculations. Times, Sunday Times Like most games, it offers a fairly lengthy narrative that players can enjoy alone - a military thriller that will probably take 10 to 12 hours to complete. Times, Sunday Times People used to commit to a fairly lengthy process - say an hour's psychoanalysis four to five times a week - and so self-reconstruction would take four or five years. Times, Sunday Times This area has a fairly lengthy history of human occupation, including archaeological prehistoric and colonial historic resources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Beyond the fairly limited sphere of our own immediate existence we are content to be spectators, watching the show. Times, Sunday Times Even if the currency were fairly limited, sharp swings in value could threaten financial stability. Times, Sunday Times Opportunities to buy period gems are fairly limited, but new-build options are increasing. Times, Sunday Times The trust's use of gearing, which amplifies returns in a rising market, has historically been fairly limited, which arguably also has held it back. Times,Sunday Times I've spent much of the past decade trying to shift these ill-gotten gains, with fairly limited success. Times,Sunday Times Ecclesiastical buildings are one niche area where prices are still fairly low. Times,Sunday Times Yet despite their success, the family have kept a fairly low profile. Times, Sunday Times Creme eggs have a fairly low theobromine content because they're half fondant. Times, Sunday Times I can tell that from his fairly low resting pulse. The Sun The bond offers a fairly low coupon of 2.875 per cent. Times, Sunday Times But there's a fairly minimal amount of people who can win the whole thing, right? Times, Sunday Times The costs of setting up a virtual company overseas are fairly minimal. Times, Sunday Times My involvement was fairly minimal let's say. Times, Sunday Times Others are fairly minimal abstractions, elaborate colour compositions or artfully casual, explosively dynamic scribbles in subdued colours. The Times Literary Supplement Logic, for instance, involves a (fairly minimal) commitment to viewing the world in terms of individual entities and relations between them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She was a fairly minor royal, only third in line of succession and never expected to ascend the throne. Times, Sunday Times A 26-mile walk seemed like a fairly minor consideration, really, in order to have a breakfast like that. Times, Sunday Times Compared with this consensus on broad strategy, the differences between the parties are fairly minor. Times, Sunday Times Usually it's fairly minor and you can calm it down. Times, Sunday Times I make (fairly minor and sporadic) contributions to charitable causes. Times, Sunday Times There was a time when a table radio was a fairly modest machine that performed a straightforward task. Times, Sunday Times They bought it for a fairly modest 110,000 in 2006. Times, Sunday Times But despite his growing reputation, his ambitions are fairly modest. The Sun Prices, though, are still fairly modest, at an average of 129,462, making this by far the cheapest of our 10 seaside locations. Times, Sunday Times Nowadays, people with fairly modest backgrounds own a property and these are often worth a lot of money. Times, Sunday Times In fact, during much of the 19th century it was fairly normal to have snow at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times Once you are behind the wheel, though, all seems to be fairly normal. Times, Sunday Times Despite all the gloom and doom, temperatures are fairly normal for the time of year. Times, Sunday Times The other shops sold fairly normal things like bread and clothes. Times, Sunday Times It might sound extreme but that was a fairly normal night for me. The Sun It became fairly obvious that the firebreak wasn't working. Times, Sunday Times There's a fairly obvious east/west divide running right down the middle. Times, Sunday Times But it still has three fairly obvious shortcomings. Times, Sunday Times That this now seems fairly obvious, doesn't mean that it wasn't important. Times, Sunday Times It's fairly obvious where this leaves you: standing at a love junction staring at two signs. The Sun For example, a 'fairly ordinary' detached family home, set in a third of an acre, went on the market for 1.45m last month. Times, Sunday Times I felt special even though it tasted fairly ordinary. The Sun They had five or six very good players but the feeling was the rest were fairly ordinary. The Sun On it, he built his first property: a four-bedroom, 'fairly ordinary' detached family home. Times, Sunday Times It was strictly standard fare from a couple of fairly ordinary outfits. The Sun You get façades that are grand in form but often fairly plain in detail, with the exception of elaborate door surrounds. Times, Sunday Times In a nearby office was a downtrodden-looking 'manager', who made it fairly plain that it would be futile for me to appeal. Times, Sunday Times They would arrive in fairly plain clothes. Times, Sunday Times Until the 16th century, these beds, even those of the nobles, were fairly plain and understated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The most notable influences were the cantilevered upper decks, the use of seating colors other than green, and fairly plain concrete exteriors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The cash it generates should also be fairly predictable as assumptions can be made about how long policyholders will keep paying their premiums. Times, Sunday Times Job losses, or corrections to pay, are fairly predictable. Times, Sunday Times Most workers are probably used to a typical company-subsidised canteen that offers fairly predictable boarding school-type fare. ST They are conditioned to expect the ball to be delivered from a specific place at a certain speed to a fairly predictable spot. Times, Sunday Times The graphics are striking and the movie-like camera work distracts well from a fairly predictable plot. The Sun After all, it seems to be a fairly recent invention. Times, Sunday Times Don't assume that you're on the best tariff because you've changed in the past, even if the move was fairly recent. Times, Sunday Times In the fairly recent past it was not hard to be knowledgeable. Times, Sunday Times After all, some of our fairly recent ancestors seemed to have rather enjoyed the smell of a ripe armpit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the case of learn there are occasional precedents, but the use of a 't' ending in earn seems to be a fairly recent and erroneous analogy. Times, Sunday Times Food sales should prove fairly robust, analysts say, but clothing may well have lingered on the shelves. Times, Sunday Times She says that most antiquities are fairly robust despite their age, so they do not require any particular special treatment. Times, Sunday Times All families have their particular dynamic; ours, rightly or wrongly, has fairly robust humour at its centre. Times, Sunday Times Under these circumstances the fairly robust performance of the economy this year could augur badly for the future. Times, Sunday Times I am a fairly robust debater and can cope with interruption and heckling. Times, Sunday Times Displaying older work was fairly routine: put it on the wall or on a pedestal. Times, Sunday Times It was a fairly routine offside decision at a ruck but by that time the referee had finally run out of patience. Times, Sunday Times This might prove to be, if not easy, at least fairly routine - in technical terms. Times, Sunday Times The sentiments are fairly routine, and if these are the most embarrassing, can you imagine how tedious the thousand of others are? Times, Sunday Times In the end, in fact, it was all fairly routine
just another day at the office for the champions, you could say. The Sun I think it's fairly safe to say, then, that a picnic at the moment might be, well, no picnic. Times, Sunday Times Investors, who have previously seen the sector as a fairly safe haven, should be cautious. Times, Sunday Times It's fairly safe to say we wouldn't have won then. The Sun And, to make a fairly safe prediction, it will never be dull. Christianity Today That sounds like a fairly safe move, as the first two were genuine blockbusters. The Sun There were fairly significant price drops until 2009, as much as 20 per cent in some cases, and prices have not changed much since. Times, Sunday Times Once you move them, those adaptations may be lost and you may end up with a fairly significant mortality rate. Times, Sunday Times I've already bagsied the 65th-floor duplex, subject to a fairly significant relaxation of mortgage regulations. Times, Sunday Times The weight increase for all the extra turbomachinery and ducting was fairly significant, however. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, the 16-bit external data bus of the 8086 implied fairly significant hardware redesign, as well as other complications and expenses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At least the transition should be fairly smooth. Times, Sunday Times They are also generally easier to clean than the wheel underneath, being fairly smooth and less prone to accumulating dirt. Times, Sunday Times Let them cool and then place in a food processor and blend till you have a fairly smooth pulp. ST Mash everything up until fairly smooth, season to taste with a good amount of salt and pepper and squeeze in the lime (or lemon) juice. The Sun Then add the raw onion, throw the whole lot in a blender and whizz until fairly smooth. Times, Sunday Times Fairly solid banks are finding it hard to fund themselves. Times, Sunday Times Fairly solid defensively but offered little going forward. The Sun They need a lot of rebuilding, but are fairly solid. Times, Sunday Times They have had a fairly solid season and use a different exhaust system to the rest, so could have less to lose by the rule change. The Sun At one level, it was buying a fairly solid business, but at another it was buying decades of foreign expertise in running cinemas. Times, Sunday Times She's clearly fairly stable at the moment, which can only be good news for fans awaiting her longdelayed comeback next year. The Sun The participation has remained fairly stable because of limited funding. Houston Chronicle The consortium said that while there was some volatility in the system, it expected food inflation to remain fairly stable throught the year. Times, Sunday Times This balance keeps the annual sediment temperatures fairly stable. Smithsonian For a start, private investors are for the most part buy-and-hold investors, their holdings being fairly stable. Times, Sunday Times These rules are fairly standard across the industry, but check the small print. Times, Sunday Times Otherwise, its features are fairly standard, with a good solid build. Times, Sunday Times The applicator was fairly standard and did not do anything amazing with my lashes. Times, Sunday Times While some form of cancellation cover tends to be fairly standard, cover for travel disruption sometimes has to be bought separately. Times, Sunday Times The annual charges are fairly standard at about 1.5%, but it has a performance fee at 15% above the fund's benchmark. Times, Sunday Times Physically, he's not the bounding force he used to be, staying fairly static at a small table centre stage. Times, Sunday Times So he's going to be a fairly static ambassador, then. The Sun The result has been a fairly static, offensively mediocre midfield. Times, Sunday Times Although organic food commands a premium price, agricultural rents have been fairly static for the past 10 years and profitability remains marginal. Times, Sunday Times It compares with an industry average, over a similar period, of ten years, which has remained fairly static. Times, Sunday Times This normally means removal under local anaesthetic - a fairly straightforward procedure - by a dermatologist or surgeon, followed by diagnosis by a pathologist. Times, Sunday Times He said that claims that had come in directly had been fairly straightforward, while claims from third parties were more complex to assess. Times, Sunday Times It seems fairly straightforward, until we move to the dense copse, which instantly jeopardises our straight-line advances. The Sun Having said that, however, it was a fairly straightforward game. Times, Sunday Times So far, so fairly straightforward, combining interval training with good 'core' strengthening exercises, all with the added encouragement of the group atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times There must, however, be some fairly strict conditions. Times, Sunday Times There will be fairly strict vetting procedures. Times, Sunday Times Having said that, we were both fairly strict with them — no swearing, be polite to people. Times, Sunday Times Their diets vary from fairly strict herbivory to nearly pure insectivory, and levels in between. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I think you have to have a fairly strict methodology in dealing with a large number of people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thus, you will probably find that your friends owe you a fairly substantial sum. Times, Sunday Times My fairly substantial mortgage, which represents just 35% of the property's value, requires repayment on my 70th birthday this year. Times, Sunday Times And, of course, over the last year there have been fairly substantial increases in [auto-]insurance premiums. Globe and Mail Unfortunately, these people represent a fairly substantial part of the clairvoyancy industry. Times, Sunday Times Their clients will possess a fairly substantial chunk of money to start with and do not want to see it frittered away in speculative investments. Times, Sunday Times Despite the criticism, he reckons his choice was fairly tame. The Sun It's fairly tame for hot stuff, which lends a certain charm. Christianity Today They are usually easy to see because they are fairly tame and like to be on the outer branches. Times, Sunday Times His choice as the party's general secretary was defeated by the union vote, and his party reforms, already fairly tame, have been delayed because of union resistance. Times, Sunday Times They are usually fairly tame. Times, Sunday Times Even if one halves in value, that would only knock 1% off the fund — a fairly typical fluctuation on a down day. Times,Sunday Times Grim, grim, grim, and a fairly typical induction into the nation's gastronomic health. Times, Sunday Times My neighbour's reaction was fairly typical of public responses to the car more broadly. Times, Sunday Times Such events are fairly typical of paediatric neurosurgical life in this city. Times, Sunday Times This suggests that our common ancestor with chimpanzees also had a fairly typical repertoire of vocal communication for a nonhuman primate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The winds high above were also fairly weak - strong high-level winds can topple a typhoon easily. Times, Sunday Times Panorama's claims were fairly weak. Times, Sunday Times Tawny frogmouths prefer to catch their prey with their beaks and have fairly weak feet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For the first decades, the departments had a fairly weak position organisationally. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But they are fairly weak and can not defend themselves when someone talks back to them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. Christianity Today He gained a reputation for judging fairly and swiftly; in fact, he dispatched cases so quickly that on some days he ran out of work. Christianity Today He added he hoped the firm would be 'judged fairly'. The Sun Goalkeepers want to be judged fairly, too. Times, Sunday Times Judged fairly and without favour. Times, Sunday Times They were strong words with a compassionate motive - to speak up for the most vulnerable and to ensure they are treated fairly and with dignity. Times, Sunday Times Though members are not employees of a golf club, they are still entitled to be treated fairly, in accordance with the rules of natural justice. Times, Sunday Times I just want to be treated fairly and be given a chance to achieve something for my country. The Sun Small businesses are the backbone of the economy and need to be treated fairly. Times, Sunday Times Because each position was treated fairly, we were able to help both sides see the best points of the other. Christianity Today Translations: Chinese: 相当 Japanese: 公正に |
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