| 单词 | fairly |
| 释义 | fairly (once / 123 pages) 1adv 2adv When you do something fairly, you treat everyone with equal consideration. Sharing a pizza fairly between six people is easy: just give each person one slice. A teacher who doesn't treat all students fairly isn't a very good teacher — and a police officer who doesn't act fairly toward all citizens is also doing a poor job. When you behave fairly, you're unbiased and impartial, and you follow the rules. You can also use this adverb to mean "to a large degree" or "reasonably." For example, you could say, "I'm fairly certain that it's going to snow again tomorrow." WORD FAMILYfair: faired, fairer, fairest, fairing, fairish, fairly, fairness, fairs, unfair+/fairish: fairishly/unfair: unfairer, unfairest, unfairly, unfairness/unfairness: unfairnesses USAGE EXAMPLESNorthstar says the state approved the way it ran the games and that they were run fairly. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) In other words, the advantage of the bye and needing to win just one home game to get to a conference final is fairly immense. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) It was in fairly wide use by the 1960s. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1adv without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner deal fairly with one another Syn evenhandedly, fair 2adv in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating 2they played fairly Syn|Ant clean, fair below the belt, unfairly in an unfair manner adv to a moderately sufficient extent or degree he is fairly clever with computers Syn|Ant jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat immoderately, unreasonably to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation |
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