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单词 finely
释义
finelyfine‧ly /ˈfaɪnli/ ●●○ adverb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • finely detailed furniture
  • a finely polished mirror
  • In a food processor, finely chop the peppers and onions.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Balancing these tensions required finely honed knowledge and skill that the new managers had only begun to acquire.
  • Bold golden dragons with cherry red eyes danced sinuously on deep green, finely tiled columns.
  • The Circotherm system includes a unique, finely balanced, fan which cleverly draws any wasted heat directly back into the oven.
  • The prongs had rounded edges that fit into finely finished grooves.
  • The web was so finely woven that he had no way forward but by continuing the deceit.
  • You generally need to remove the thick spine before finely shredding the leaf.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=very carefully balanced) soup with a delicately balanced flavor
 Add two finely chopped onions and a clove of garlic.
 finely honed (=extremely well-developed) intuition
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Ad a little finely chopped onion, a few black olives, fruity olive oil and a squeeze of lemon.· Mix with the finely chopped shallots, tarragon and parsley.· Add 1 finely sliced carrot and 1 stick finely chopped celery and cook 5 minutes.· A little finely chopped fresh coriander may also be added for colour.· Soften cheese with a fork and add finely chopped chives, parsley or spring onion tops and season well.· Fresh mint is also good finely chopped and sprinkled over buttery new potatoes or peas.· Fill each half with a finely chopped tomato.· A summery variation is to add finely chopped cress.
· That was the rallying cry of Nelson Mandela's finely crafted speech.· Or are they simply reacting emotionally to finely crafted television commercials and populist rhetoric?· The Shakers believed rooms should be tidy so they designed finely crafted fitted and storage furniture, all available from this shop.· All Saunders' finely crafted drawings, in fact, suggest speed and fluidity and an abandonment of conscious control.
· Add the finely grated rind of the orange and lemon, the rum and mixed spice.
· Dana had been too determined to avoid her, and Claudia's finely tuned senses told her Dana was uneasy.· He was a highly sensitized instrument, a finely tuned social and academic barometer.· Concepts such as proportionality or legal certainty may be able to provide a more finely tuned approach.· Spring's new swimwear is a finely tuned balance between modesty and brazenness.· This is a finely tuned mechanism for responding to the imperatives of the law of conservation of mass.· Manifestations Gifts Physical and mental dexterity; finely tuned perceptions.
VERB
· Ferndown consolidated as the game progressed and the game was very finely balanced.· Please try not to upset or destroy this finely balanced mechanism or the building blocks will collapse like a row of dominoes.· Arguments over toxicity and cost-benefit are finely balanced.· The issues are finely balanced and there is no simple answer to the question.· But in practice the prognosis is finely balanced.· There is concern about the law in this area and I believe that the arguments on it are finely balanced.
· Scald, skin, de-seed and finely chop the tomatoes.· Remove and cut the cloves in half, removing any green core, and chop finely.· Peel, core and finely chop the apricots and mix well with the cheese mixture.· Drain well and chop finely in a food processor or with a knife.
· Deseed the peppers, dice finely and place in a bowl.· Discard stems and finely dice caps.
· In the early days ordinary mill-stones were used as the clinker was soft and the cement need not be finely ground.· Pimientos become paprika when dried and finely ground.· As production methods improved the clinker produced was harder and the cement had to be more finely ground.· The finely ground nuts got lost in the batter.· Scattering may be a problem unless the sample is very finely ground.
· And while a teenager has the foresight of a flea, her powers of humbug-detection are finely honed.
· Finely mince the lemon and add it to sauces or marinades.
· The more finely sliced the ingredients the stronger the flavour.· Trim and finely slice the spring onions.
· Secondly, in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty.· It is a finely tuned art that depends on the perceptive skills and sound judgment of the consultant.· Not only is the bird's distribution highly individual, its ecology is more finely tuned than that of any other falcon.· And it is our experience that successful entrepreneurs quickly develop a finely tuned instinct for investing their time in high-profit opportunities.· His stomach was as finely tuned an instrument as was his palate.· Likewise, the balance between incidental excitement and structural cohesion is finely tuned in Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel.· They are so finely tuned to each other s responses that they do seem to be cellmates.· The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • And it is our experience that successful entrepreneurs quickly develop a finely tuned instinct for investing their time in high-profit opportunities.
  • Dana had been too determined to avoid her, and Claudia's finely tuned senses told her Dana was uneasy.
  • He was a highly tuned machine for using people.
  • He was a highly sensitized instrument, a finely tuned social and academic barometer.
  • It is a finely tuned art that depends on the perceptive skills and sound judgment of the consultant.
  • Or had it been between them, or only in her own highly tuned emotions?
  • Secondly, in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty.
  • True each of them has been finely tuned.
1into very thin or very small pieces:  finely chopped onion2in a very careful, delicate, or exact way:  Saunders’ finely crafted drawings These instruments are very finely tuned.3beautifully or impressively:  He wore a silk cloak over a finely embroidered robe. high-quality, finely carved statues
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