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单词 intimately
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Definition of intimately in English:

intimately

adverb ˈɪntɪmətli
  • 1In a way that involves detailed knowledge.

    everyone knew intimately what was going on
    as submodifier he is intimately familiar with her work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is intimately aware of how vulnerable people can be.
    • He became intimately acquainted with the strengths and weaknesses of the world's "great buildings."
    • He was appointed Queen's guide in 1963 and knows the sands intimately.
    • At the start of the new millennium, the world's researchers became intimately acquainted with an insect no larger than a gnat.
    • In Sri Lanka, he consulted the genius of a place whose climate and culture he knew intimately.
    • It's vital the sales staff becomes intimately familiar with the artists' work.
    • A seasoned survey veteran would have been intimately familiar with the facts of this translation process.
    • After living for almost a decade on Minorca, he knows the island's landscape intimately.
    • Residential architects get to know their clients much more intimately than do our commercial counterparts.
    • His subjects are items from his experiences, items he knows, intimately at least by proximity.
    1. 1.1 In a way that involves a close link or relationship.
      themes of love and death were intimately connected
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is an engagement in this project between the cultural institution and the concept of the marketplace to which a commercial city like Melbourne is intimately associated.
      • These stories tell the essential narratives of our lives, and they are intimately linked with art.
      • Specialists had made significant progress in documenting Algeria's Roman heritage, a process intimately bound up with French imperial ambitions.
      • Lewis's move toward abstraction was intimately bound up with a "crisis in relations between masculinity and representation."
      • As well as embodying novelty and enchantment, the architecture of the spa reflected these intimately connected functions.
      • All were intimately tied to the historic dead who were exhumed and venerated for the symbolism of their unique state of preservation.
      • Naming Nguni cattle is a complex process that is intimately connected to Zulu oral history and poetry.
      • Copper and the sea have always been intimately associated, and in Lisbon they are brought into crisp modern conjunction.
      • What is shocking about her withdrawal is the rigor with which she rejected two intimately connected systems: patriarchy and capitalism.
      • Architecture has become intimately related to development exploitation and inequity by an increasingly democratic society.
  • 2In a private and personal way.

    the pair laughed and talked intimately
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Playwright, director, and cast make you believe every word so that you feel you know these people as intimately as your own family.
    • The facts were often so transmogrified as to be unrecognizable except to the writer himself and to the people who knew him intimately.
    • Opening the poem to contemporary reading and readers opens the context that, to Shelley's mind, he shared most intimately with Keats.
    • The acting is peerless, and you feel as if you know every individual man intimately.
    • I loved the man, I got to know him intimately, and he's now dead.
    • He claimed to have learned "from several who knew him intimately" that the sensibility of Gray was even morbid.
    • No one needed to see another movie where the villain and the cop know each other intimately.
    • They produce a work that is at once ambiguous and, in its daring decisions, intimately personal.
    • Internal evidence from the canon of Melville's writings suggests he knew Milton intimately and studied him closely.
    • I look admiringly at the strangely worked beauty of his art while the two men talk intimately together.
    1. 2.1euphemistic In a sexual way.
      a fear of being touched intimately
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While two of the kids intimately embrace, the third nonchalantly smokes a cigarette.
      • He has described how he was intimately fondled by a prison doctor.
      • She gradually abandoned her painting, only returning to it when she became intimately involved with Picasso.
      • He set his eyes on her, intimately caressed her very being, and embroidered thoughts in her mind totally unlike herself.
      • The cabbie admits he could not resist a swipe at a young passenger who, after groping his girlfriend rather intimately, offered the driver a cigarette.
      • Teenagers who intimately kiss many different people almost quadruple their risk of developing meningitis, according to a study to be published today.
      • They broke up early this year, soon after some pictures that showed him intimately hugging another woman were publicized.
      • Apparently he noticed a young man intimately teasing his wife.
      • She inevitably asked me if I had become intimately involved with anyone.
      • It is very hard to concentrate whilst being held intimately in a man's arms.
 
 

Definition of intimately in US English:

intimately

adverbˈin(t)əmətlē
  • 1In a way that involves detailed knowledge.

    everyone knew intimately what was going on
    as submodifier he is intimately familiar with her work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Sri Lanka, he consulted the genius of a place whose climate and culture he knew intimately.
    • A seasoned survey veteran would have been intimately familiar with the facts of this translation process.
    • He is intimately aware of how vulnerable people can be.
    • At the start of the new millennium, the world's researchers became intimately acquainted with an insect no larger than a gnat.
    • His subjects are items from his experiences, items he knows, intimately at least by proximity.
    • It's vital the sales staff becomes intimately familiar with the artists' work.
    • Residential architects get to know their clients much more intimately than do our commercial counterparts.
    • After living for almost a decade on Minorca, he knows the island's landscape intimately.
    • He became intimately acquainted with the strengths and weaknesses of the world's "great buildings."
    • He was appointed Queen's guide in 1963 and knows the sands intimately.
    1. 1.1 In a way that involves a close link or relationship.
      themes of love and death were intimately connected
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is an engagement in this project between the cultural institution and the concept of the marketplace to which a commercial city like Melbourne is intimately associated.
      • Architecture has become intimately related to development exploitation and inequity by an increasingly democratic society.
      • All were intimately tied to the historic dead who were exhumed and venerated for the symbolism of their unique state of preservation.
      • Naming Nguni cattle is a complex process that is intimately connected to Zulu oral history and poetry.
      • Lewis's move toward abstraction was intimately bound up with a "crisis in relations between masculinity and representation."
      • Specialists had made significant progress in documenting Algeria's Roman heritage, a process intimately bound up with French imperial ambitions.
      • As well as embodying novelty and enchantment, the architecture of the spa reflected these intimately connected functions.
      • These stories tell the essential narratives of our lives, and they are intimately linked with art.
      • What is shocking about her withdrawal is the rigor with which she rejected two intimately connected systems: patriarchy and capitalism.
      • Copper and the sea have always been intimately associated, and in Lisbon they are brought into crisp modern conjunction.
  • 2In a private and personal way.

    the pair laughed and talked intimately
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He claimed to have learned "from several who knew him intimately" that the sensibility of Gray was even morbid.
    • The facts were often so transmogrified as to be unrecognizable except to the writer himself and to the people who knew him intimately.
    • I look admiringly at the strangely worked beauty of his art while the two men talk intimately together.
    • I loved the man, I got to know him intimately, and he's now dead.
    • Internal evidence from the canon of Melville's writings suggests he knew Milton intimately and studied him closely.
    • They produce a work that is at once ambiguous and, in its daring decisions, intimately personal.
    • The acting is peerless, and you feel as if you know every individual man intimately.
    • No one needed to see another movie where the villain and the cop know each other intimately.
    • Playwright, director, and cast make you believe every word so that you feel you know these people as intimately as your own family.
    • Opening the poem to contemporary reading and readers opens the context that, to Shelley's mind, he shared most intimately with Keats.
    1. 2.1euphemistic In a sexual way.
      a fear of being touched intimately
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While two of the kids intimately embrace, the third nonchalantly smokes a cigarette.
      • Teenagers who intimately kiss many different people almost quadruple their risk of developing meningitis, according to a study to be published today.
      • It is very hard to concentrate whilst being held intimately in a man's arms.
      • They broke up early this year, soon after some pictures that showed him intimately hugging another woman were publicized.
      • She gradually abandoned her painting, only returning to it when she became intimately involved with Picasso.
      • Apparently he noticed a young man intimately teasing his wife.
      • The cabbie admits he could not resist a swipe at a young passenger who, after groping his girlfriend rather intimately, offered the driver a cigarette.
      • She inevitably asked me if I had become intimately involved with anyone.
      • He set his eyes on her, intimately caressed her very being, and embroidered thoughts in her mind totally unlike herself.
      • He has described how he was intimately fondled by a prison doctor.
 
 
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