| 单词 | whole |
| 释义 | whole I. 1. a. (1) < thousands … who have been killed or wounded … might still be alive and whole — Patrick McMahon > (2) (3) < here, with one balm for many fevers found, whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound — A.E.Housman > b. < anxious lest they were broken and thus make an evil omen, but they were whole — Pearl Buck > c. < they that are whole need not a physician — Lk 5:31 (Authorized Version) > 2. a. < have given a whole philosophy of history interpreted through these factors — P.A.Sorokin > < brings on a whole symphony of hammerings and hissings — R.M.Hodesh > < a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators — U.S. Constitution > b. < whole blood > < whole milk > 3. a. < engineering feats … that have severed whole continental land masses — M.J.Herskovits > < give their whole time to the study of patients — Official Register of Harvard University > < a whole two miles of the riverbank had been acquired by the city — Leslie Charteris > b. < lost money the whole 10 days > < took part in the whole series of battles > c. chiefly Scotland 4. a. < whole nuts > < a whole roast suckling pig > b. < gave it his whole attention > < put his whole soul into the performance > 5. < the whole aim of present strategy is to deter aggression — Denis Healey > : very great < felt a whole lot better for the news > : very many : extensive < whole farms were overrun > : large, tremendous 6. a. < the whole child — physical, emotional, social — is now considered in planning his remedial work — College English > < the spiritual life is or should be a harmonious development of the whole man — W.R.Inge > b. < the central focus of education is the student … this is the whole student in all his relationships and adjustments — D.D.Feder > Synonyms: < devoting his whole energy to the task > < he of the whole party might be supposed untouched by the passion of death — Thomas De Quincey > < throughout his whole career he was keenly alive to the course of political events — W.C.Ford > entire may suggest a being completed, finished, or perfected < my strength is unimpaired, my mind is entire — O.S.J.Gogarty > < always the entire person, never the mere teacher, who spoke — C.N.Greenough > total may imply that all possible items or constituents have been counted, weighed, reckoned, or considered < the Soviet threat is total; it affects every form of human endeavor — H.S.Truman > < open our homes and our community life to these visitors from abroad so that they can see how we live in our total social environment — D.J.Shank > all, followed by the or by a possessive or demonstrative pronoun sometimes equals whole < all the city was in an uproar > < all the cake was eaten > or sometimes entire < all their development > < all their attention focused on the scene > or sometimes total < all his savings > gross adds the indication that no deductions, as for costs, taxes, and replacement funds, have been made < his gross salary was a thousand a month, but various taxes made large inroads in this > < the foregoing figures are gross, rather than net dividends — Yrbk. of Railroad Information > • - out of whole cloth II. < laying a half-dirty cloth upon a whole-dirty deal table — Sir Walter Scott > III. 1. < the whole of our creative literature … has this law of nature behind it — Herbert Agar > < the whole of their relationship passed before him — Hamilton Basso > 2. < built its “A” mill, incorporating parts of earlier buildings, and unifying the whole by a new facade — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < a musical design can be discovered in particular scenes, and in his more perfect plays as wholes — T.S.Eliot > Synonyms: see sum • - on the whole |
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