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单词 generally
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generally
(enrəli )
1. adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2
You use generally to give a summary of a situation, activity, or idea without referring to the particular details of it.
University teachers generally have admitted a lack of enthusiasm about their subjects.
Speaking generally, the space enterprise has served astronomy well.
Synonyms: broadly, mainly, mostly, principally  
2. adverb [ADVERB with verb] B1
You use generally to say that something happens or is used on most occasions but not on every occasion.
As women we generally say and feel too much about these things.
It is generally true that the darker the fruit the higher its iron content.
Generally speaking, his judgment is sound.
Synonyms: usually, commonly, typically, regularly  
Collocations:
generally low
The owners say it's easy to heat and energy bills are generally low.
The Sun
Graduate unemployment rates are generally low, while starting salaries at 20,300 are higher than average.
Times, Sunday Times
Here the reoffending rates for those who are being supervised or resident in probation hostels are generally low.
Times, Sunday Times
Potatoes also have a generally low allergenicity.
The Sun
On the other hand, the difficulty in obtaining credit as well as generally low demand meant that fewer ships were being built and sold.
Times, Sunday Times
generally mild
Generally mild, it seems to have slipped quietly away, letting in spring by the back door as it left.
Times, Sunday Times
Any vaccine approved for use will have passed safety trials on tens of thousands of people showing that sideeffects are generally mild.
Times,Sunday Times
Summers are hot, but winters are generally mild.
Times,Sunday Times
Experts say that fine weather with good levels of sunshine this week, on top of a generally mild winter, have helped growers to produce the fruit a week early.
Times, Sunday Times
These problems were generally mild and occurred more frequently during the first month of treatment.
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generally negative
I just thought she had a generally negative attitude to life.
Times, Sunday Times
Reception of the game has been generally negative.
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Its video game adaptation met generally negative reviews.
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The song received generally negative reviews from music critics.
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Anonymous blog postings were generally negative or expressed confusion.
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generally optimistic
Official bulletins on his condition were generally optimistic, but this week his doctors described his condition as 'not stable'.
Times, Sunday Times
They are simple, generally optimistic, often humorous, and rendered with taste and skill.
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For example, an ill person with no medical training, but with a generally optimistic attitude, might believe that he will recover from his illness quickly.
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Most of his films are generally optimistic in nature.
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A generally optimistic person, stuck in a job and a long-term engagement, neither of which she's happy with.
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generally peaceful
Generally peaceful, most species are easy to take care of and quite colorful.
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This transformation, though generally peaceful, was accompanied by occasional tension.
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These fish are generally peaceful and good companions to many other types of tropical fish.
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They maintained generally peaceful relations with outsiders from the nineteenth century onward.
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They are generally peaceful, usually keeping to themselves and not disturbing others.
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generally positive
This 'fussiness' has met with a generally positive response.
Times, Sunday Times
However, market reaction was generally positive with the shares up 13¼p, or 4.6 per cent, to 297½p.
Times,Sunday Times
The company's last trading update was generally positive and it reported 20 per cent earnings growth last year.
Times, Sunday Times
They were all generally positive about the experience, as regards getting fit, acquiring self-discipline and accelerating maturity.
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Senior's trading statement for the third quarter was mixed but generally positive.
Times, Sunday Times
generally reliable
They offer great warranties, they are generally reliable and you never have to look far to find a workshop.
The Sun
Especially with such a generally reliable cast.
Times, Sunday Times
When you encountered someone of professed left-of-centre opinions, you used to be able to draw broad but important, and generally reliable, inferences about what these entailed.
Times, Sunday Times
While organization of the corps was found to be generally reliable, the corps' subdivision into four or five divisions hampered overall ease of command.
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Wagons were generally reliable if maintained, but they sometimes broke down and had to be repaired or abandoned along the way.
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generally reluctant
Hotels profiting from internet access are generally reluctant to advertise the fact.
Times, Sunday Times
Lenders know that customers are generally reluctant to switch current accounts, so once they are in, they may be customers for life.
Times, Sunday Times
While commercial landlords are generally reluctant to reduce rents as it changes the rental tone of a high street, they are more open to doing deals.
Times, Sunday Times
Preferred lies are commonplace in routine tour events but officials at the four majors championships are generally reluctant to do anything that compromises the integrity of their tournaments.
Times, Sunday Times
The authorities are generally reluctant to give permission to film in the area.
Times, Sunday Times
generally safe
But generally safe and, as captain, exuded confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
Coastal resorts are generally safe.
The Sun
There were arrests yesterday but the generally safe passage of this game was proof writ large of how football and society have evolved in 28 years.
Times, Sunday Times
Sterilization and redundant donor screening process make allografts a generally safe choice for patients; however, risks remain.
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These concentrations are generally safe for recent engines that should run on pure gasoline.
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generally stable
It pointed out mortality rates have remained generally stable since 2011, taking into account population size and age.
The Sun
The formation's thick bedding, extensive cementation and dolomitisation have made it a generally stable engineering material.
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They are moisture resistant and are generally stable in hostile environments.
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Barium ferrites are robust ceramics that are generally stable to moisture and corrosion-resistant.
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But simple enols are not generally stable and of considerably higher energy than the corresponding ketones.
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generally supportive
Balls was generally supportive of the banks, backing their claim that sluggish lending had more to do with weak demand than restricted supply.
Times, Sunday Times
Both meetings went well as most people were surprised but generally supportive of the plan.
Christianity Today
The advice can be entirely practical - which forms to fill in, where to go for specific information - or more generally supportive.
Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, my article was generally supportive of the inquiry.
Times, Sunday Times
It insisted that investors were generally supportive of the rise.
Times, Sunday Times
generally unaware
They were generally unaware of what the post-mortem examination involved and none had considered the possibility that whole organs could be removed for analysis.
Times, Sunday Times
Authors themselves are, famously, generally unaware of all the meanings their texts convey.
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Many people are generally unaware of the negative environmental consequences associated with the production and consumption of bottled water.
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Most visitors to the stadium and the museum were generally unaware of what was on the wooded hilltop other than it was something which they were not allowed to access.
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generally upbeat
Despite the generally upbeat numbers the shares were $20.73 lower at $427.40, valuing the company at $396 billion.
Times,Sunday Times
Economists are generally upbeat about prospects for the world economy.
Times, Sunday Times
In any case, the home media, while generally upbeat, are by no means burying the story.
Times, Sunday Times
He was not afraid of using his work to indulge his passions, notably jazz, and his tone was generally upbeat and positive.
Times, Sunday Times
One sector that failed to respond to the generally upbeat end-of-week session was tobacco.
Times, Sunday Times
generally weak
It cited several factors for the fall into the red, some avoidable, some unexpected, all set against a generally weak trading environment.
Times, Sunday Times
This was most evident in the first act, where the dancing was generally weak and sloppy.
Times, Sunday Times
Regardless of the explanation for that decline, sterling has been highly volatile and generally weak since the referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
They tend to have short, rounded wings and although they are generally weak fliers, they are, nevertheless, capable of covering long distances.
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Some effects of linguistic relativity have been shown in several semantic domains, although they are generally weak.
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speak generally
Or rather, speaking generally, they are as interested in it as anyone else, but speaking sartorially it makes them yawn.
Times, Sunday Times
The majority of the speech spoke generally about human rights and civil society, focusing on principles rather than particular facts.
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They must help pay the cost and will never do it, speaking generally, until forced to do so by legislation.
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Translations:
Chinese: 通常
Japanese: 一般に
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