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单词 finally
释义
finallyfi‧nal‧ly /ˈfaɪnəl-i/ ●●● S2 W1 AWL adverb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Finally, I'd like to thank all those people who helped make the conference such a success.
  • And finally, don't miss Albuquerque's amazing punk band, playing tonight at the Lunar Club.
  • And finally, I'd like to thank the cast and crew for all their hard work.
  • I was put on hold for about ten minutes before I finally got to speak to my dad.
  • The Senate ethics committee has not yet acted finally in the Cranston case.
  • We finally found a decent apartment close to campus.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But you finally have a chance.
  • From there he moved on to Edinburgh, and finally shut himself away in his much embellished palace of Falkland to die.
  • He finally drew the cigar into red heat and discarded the final match.
  • It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes.
  • Then it started on Cumbrian limestone, blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so, finally, to Raven Crag.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
after a long time, especially when there have been difficulties or delays. In the end is used especially in spoken English: · After a lot of questioning, James finally admitted he had taken the car.· The plane eventually arrived at 6:30 – over three hours late.· In the end, I decided that the best thing to do was to ask Billy for help.
used when something good happens after you have waited for it for a long time: · I’m really glad that Ken’s found a job at last.· At long last (=after a very long time)he was able to see his family again.
often humorous after a long time and when there have been a lot of worries, problems, or delays: · After much ado, we moved into our new house last week.
Longman Language Activatortypes of film
after a long period of time, especially after a lot of difficulties or after a long delay: · After a lot of questioning, James finally admitted he had taken the car.· In the end, I decided that the best thing to do was to ask Billy for help.· The plane eventually arrived at 6:30 - over three hours late.
use this when something good happens after you have waited for it for a long time: · I'm really glad that Ken's found a job at last.· At last the rain stopped and the players came back on the field.at long last (=after a very long time): · At long last he was able to see his family again.
if something is going to happen sooner or later , it will certainly happen but you do not know exactly when: · Sooner or later this would end up in the papers, and I would be out of a job.· I'm sure Brian will turn up sooner or later.· He is worried that sooner or later his business will fail.
use this to say that something will happen at some time in the future, especially something that you hope will happen, although you do not know exactly when: · They're bound to find a cure for cancer one day.· I knew that we would meet again one day.· One day ordinary people will be able to travel in space.
after a particular period of time, especially after a gradual process of change or development: · She started as an office junior, and in time became director of the whole company.· Jarvis was a strange man, but in time I got to like him.
if someone or something ends up in a particular situation or condition, they eventually come to be in that situation or condition - use this especially about something bad that happens: · Forbes ended up in prison for not paying his taxes.· The sweater that my mum knitted ended up twice the size it should have been.end up doing something: · We ended up having to postpone our vacation.end up as: · Our chess game finally ended up as a draw.
what you say to introduce the last thing in a speech etc
use this when something is the last thing you want to say, especially at the end of a long speech or piece of writing: · Finally, I'd like to thank all those people who helped make the conference such a success.· And finally, don't miss Albuquerque's amazing punk band, playing tonight at the Lunar Club.
use this to say that something is the last of a list of things, or when something is the last thing you want to say: · Now lastly, before you all leave, I want to mention some tips for the interview stage.· And lastly, Delia, do you see the movement towards more and more computerization continuing in the future?· Firstly it's too big, secondly we can't afford it, and lastly we don't really need it.
use this when you are mentioning the last person or thing in a list, to emphasize that they are just as important as all the others: · Last but not least, let me introduce Jane, our new accountant.· And last but not least, I thank Begona Canup for her interest in the book.last but certainly not/by no means least: · Social Security has reduced poverty, and last, but by no means least, it has been a good deal for participants.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The case was finally settled by the Appeal Court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· Four more divisions took place then, before it was finally agreed and ordered to be sent to the House of Commons.· After weeks of wondering what to do, the engineers finally agreed on a solution.· She finally agreed and sent me to a spinal expert.· Crazy Horse finally agreed to go if Lee accompanied him on the journey.· After weeks of talks, it was finally agreed that Sade would sign to Virgin.· The Olympic Committee finally agreed, and the organizers went to work.· It was for that reason and no other that I finally agreed to stay on.· Basilio finally agrees to marry Rita to Bernardo.
· We finally arrived at the house.· When dawn finally arrived, an ill-rested city streamed to witness the cause of its apprehension being sent to her eternal punishment.· That night we finally arrived at Peshawar Airport.· Marshall had finally arrived at his office and slowly, carefully, began reading the fourteen pages, starting with page one.· They finally arrived at Lizzy's ward.· We finally arrive on station and are submerged by midmorning.· That's not what he thinks would or should happen, the day his lover finally arrives.· When the day of reckoning finally arrived, the truth was found to lie well in the middle ground between these extremes.
· But like many people we had sustained injuries and we had finally become disillusioned about ever becoming fit.· He had suddenly woken up realizing that his blurry baby had finally become quite outrageous.· After a decade in deepest black, fashion has finally become fun again.· They were allowed to come back, and they became finally great favorites of Zeus.· Love, love that had always held pain through fear of losing it but had finally become a torment.· It has become finally clear that packing largely destitute and idle people into public housing creates a rotten place to live.· A: Will doing business on the Net finally become profitable next year?
· John Strachey finally broke with Mosley in 1931 and became a Communist.· This was important, for Bonar Law's health was on the point of finally breaking up.· The sound of stockinged legs moving across the room finally broke the silence.· But Simpkin finally broke her to lead 5-4, then had two set points.· It was the Livsey century that had finally broken the Warwickshire resistance - Jeeves to the rescue once more.· Inexplicably, the usually reliable pumps started to malfunction and finally broke down.· When Niki finally breaks through the crowd, he finds a Lotus in front of him.
· Breaknecking it has finally caught up with me.· He was finally caught, and it hardly mattered who had caught him.· He finally caught up with her about thirty yards away from the pond.· Men have finally caught up with women in locking themselves out of their rooms.· She knew as sure as eggs was eggs that Kate, bless her, had finally caught herself a man.
· They finally come together at the lowest level of their relationship.· Nor was he willing to let bygones be bygones once a quarrel had finally come to an end.· By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck.· The dean had a house and car, and had had a wife, until the papers finally came through.· This man she's married finally came to his senses, but he was refusing to marry her at one point.· So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.· The day his lover finally comes home from that other city.· Liz had finally come to my office on the suggestion of her doctor, who was treating her for migraines.
· This can not be decided finally by the tribunal itself.· Merrell Dow finally decided the cost of defending itself outweighed the revenue produced by sales of the drug.· They waited in the airport for two hours before finally deciding they would go home.· She finally decided on the ham, potato salad and deviled eggs.· Perhaps, she had finally decided, I shall simply have to learn to live with it.· It was finally decided to refer the matter to the departmental assemblies.· Remember that you are your own best critic and only you can finally decide what it is you wanted to say.· She finally decided that was less important than the chance to reach millions of people.
· Riders were offered food and drinks when their trip finally ended.· Bombed out of one small premises, Grandpa had moved from factory to factory, finally ending up in what was now Belmodes.· The section gathers energy, finally ending with a brilliant and triumphant flourish.· The royal marriage had finally ended.· Only then comes the point where the crust finally ends and the mantle rock begins.· The fairytale finally ends when Harry is born on September 15.· But Thursday, the long battle finally ended.
· Of course, when my friends finally find out, they were really excited.· Many of the missing literature books finally found their way to school Wednesday.· Hugh finally found his machines for living in.· You beat us the first time around, but we finally found a jury that got it right Wednesday.· When Zeier finally found an open man downfield, he threw a pass off the head of umpire Bob Wagner.· It takes nearly two hours, but they finally find the spot.· They finally found her lying in bed in a smoke-filled bedroom, and helped her to safety.· She had finally found her public voice.
· On the day we finally got the job finished we received a visit from John Hall.· As you can imagine, when he finally got to my office, his self-esteem was badly tattered.· I'd got a baby - forty-two hours in labour, but I'd finally got a baby.· Once I finally got around to finding a definition, I see that it was never any such thing.· It is 0320 before the team finally get to bed, with the Captain promising them a lie-in until 1000 hours.· The urgent need for this cover as a presidential election looms forced the compromises that finally got results.· It seemed like just another insult, but this was the one that finally got the bully's face slapped.· A few weeks ago, she finally got new glasses, courtesy of Medi-Cal, in time for school.
· When you were finally given this flat in February this year, you must have been over the moon.· Lawmakers finally gave the Health and Human Services Department the power to issue privacy regulations.· In 1784 the house was remodelled and was finally given its neo-Baroque features in 1860.· In 1977, the battered organization finally gave up and dissolved itself.· They may keep this up time and time again until, with luck, the predator finally gives up the chase.· The doctors attending on him finally gave up hope.· With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost.
· When he had finally left the bungalow after the funeral several weeks before, David had drawn all the curtains.· Leonard and Dennis finally left for California, but I left Colorado before they did.· Polly finally left the peace camp with the gap that Jack had left in her heart and soul still not filled.· When she finally left Loreto, it did not come to me as a surprise.· The forensic scientist had finally left the road at last light, certain it had nothing more to yield.· She was exhausted when they finally left, and she stayed to talk to Zack, to thank him again.· It was not until early in 1106 that his and the king's messengers finally left for Rome.· The coming and going in the city, earning money just for myself having finally left a foolish marriage.
· More importantly, the defense finally made a critical play when called upon.· She finally made her return by jumping the 760-foot Auburn Bridge near Sacramento.· When they finally made the coast, Cassius discovered the badge was gone, and no search would bring it back.· She finally made it to university, after which to my regret I lost touch with her.· Rodman probably feels that that was the sort of job Grandfather bucked for all his life and finally made.· As my eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness I could finally make out the bats.· So what finally made network executives realize they could profit by adding more skating to their traditional sports lineups?
· We finally reached the top - to discover that the party behind had used some of our gear at a belay.· Its urbanization, progressing steadily, had finally reached the ultimate.· We looked at each other - we had finally reached Isparion's elusive summit.· As I stood looking out at the crowd, I felt I had finally reached a new stage in my life.· Helicopters circled overhead as the caravan finally reached the end of its historic journey.· The seemingly interminable day was finally reaching its dark conclusion.· But it would be tragic to have finally reached the real tough issues only to see it all fall apart.
· I want at least four when I do finally settle down and get married.· I finally settled on the idea of studying pharmacy.· But Geron and the Roslin scientists could at last assure investors that the patent question was finally settled.· Hashimoto finally settled on Wataru Kubo of the steadily disintegrating socialist party.· The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision.· The seismic jolt to Los Angeles home values appears to have finally settled down, way down.· Last week the government finally settled the case for the sum of $ 508m.· He finally settled on Reno, then the Dade Country, Fla., prosecutor.
· Adam finally turned the icon over and found on the back a small silver crown inlaid in the wood.· The soldiers regarded us suspiciously, but finally turned back to the partition where another woman was moaning in pain.· He finally turned to her, shook his head slowly from side to side and swung back to contemplate the dusk.· Six months earlier there had been hope that a new era was about to dawn, that things would finally turn around.· At Karlsruhe, the Rhine had finally turned blue and the river here is the boundary between the Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg.· One night, therefore, Blue finally turns to his copy of Walden.· He takes off his cap and runs his hand in his hair, finally turns back to her.· These Tonellis have finally turned me into a total loser.
· Derek led 12-6 then trailed 2016 before collecting two threes at the last two ends to win finally by 21-20.· The concept finally won approval last year in a simple piece of legislation, less exalted than a constitutional amendment.· But he has finally won a mint.· So we kept pushing them and we finally won.· A nail-biting finish, but finally won by Moira Creek at her first attempt and a complete stranger to Pooh culture.· The U. S. Postal Service has finally won the right to ridicule its competitors.· Over 50 people entered the handicap event which was finally won by 14- year-old Scott Friedberg.· Nixon finally won the presidency in 1968.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounfinalsemi-finalfinalistsemi-finalistfinalefinalityfinalizationadjectivefinalverbfinalizeadverbfinally
1after a long time SYN  eventually:  After several delays we finally took off at six o'clock. Finally, Karpov cracked under the pressure.2[sentence adverb] used to introduce the last in a series of things SYN  lastly → firstly OPP  firstly:  And finally, I’d like to thank the crew.3used when talking about the last in a series of actions:  She drove off at great speed, hit several parked cars, and finally crashed into a lamp-post.4in a way that does not allow changes:  The matter was not finally settled until 1475.THESAURUSfinally/eventually/in the end after a long time, especially when there have been difficulties or delays. In the end is used especially in spoken English: · After a lot of questioning, James finally admitted he had taken the car.· The plane eventually arrived at 6:30 – over three hours late.· In the end, I decided that the best thing to do was to ask Billy for help.at last used when something good happens after you have waited for it for a long time: · I’m really glad that Ken’s found a job at last.· At long last (=after a very long time)he was able to see his family again.after much ado often humorous after a long time and when there have been a lot of worries, problems, or delays: · After much ado, we moved into our new house last week.
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