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单词 remotely
释义
remotelyre‧mote‧ly /rɪˈməʊtli $ -ˈmoʊt-/ adverb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Most of the low-alcohol brews taste only remotely like beer.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Firstly, it is not the case that the evil spirits of the New Testament are remotely similar to animist spirits.
  • He wanted her every day and no girl he had met since had remotely matched up to her.
  • No job in civilian life is remotely as dangerous in terms of accidents as the wartime military.
  • Reluctantly, at the end of the exercise, Ellen saw that only four of the items were even remotely possible.
  • Stalin, let alone Mao, has never achieved remotely comparable diabolic status.
  • There was nothing remotely new in this.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorstronger expressions meaning not
use this to emphasize that something is definitely not true: · She's not at all happy about the situation.· The children didn't seem to be at all frightened.· No, no, no, that's wrong. That's not what I meant at all.
formal use this when you want to say strongly that something is not true: · It is by no means certain that you'll get your money back.· It's difficult, but by no means impossible.· It's not clear by any means where the money is going to come from to fund this project.
also not a bit especially British use this to say strongly that something is not true, especially when you would expect it to be true: · You're not in the least sorry, are you?· My essay wasn't a bit like yours.· "Was she annoyed?" "Not a bit! She was delighted."fnot the least (bit): · Henry wasn't the least bit worried.
if something is in no way affected by something else, it is definitely not affected by it in any way: · This will in no way influence our original decision.· The damage is very slight and in no way reduces the value of the painting.
use this when something is completely untrue, impossible, different etc: · His arguments are not remotely convincing.· It was a stupid remark, and not remotely funny.· She didn't seem remotely interested in anything I had to say.
use this to emphasize that something is definitely not true, and if someone thinks it is true they are being a little stupid: · They only won 1-0 - hardly a great victory!· It's hardly surprising he's upset, considering the way you've treated him!· He's hardly a world chess champion - you should be able to beat him.· All these similarities could hardly be due to chance.
use this to say that someone is not good at something: · I occasionally put up a few shelves, but I'm not exactly the world's greatest handyman.
an informal expression meaning to not have the skills, qualities etc of the person or type of person that you have mentioned: · Of course, I'm no expert but that wall really looks like it's leaning over.· Stephanie knows what she's doing. She's no fool.· He's quite a bright boy I suppose, but he's no Albert Einstein.
use this to emphasize strongly that something is not possible, likely, true etc: · I can't see any use in us talking about that idea at all - it's simply not practical.· For as long as she could remember she'd just never been interested in marriage and children.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=nothing at all like something or as good as something)· Nothing remotely resembling a cure has been found.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· He wasn't remotely interested in me and brought Philippa some goat's cheese that looked like Tutankhamun's brain.· Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance.· Taking all this into account, we have to ask why the extraterrestrials should be remotely interested in seeding distant planets.· There was no way Guy Sterne could be remotely interested in her, and as for the other way around ... She shivered.· Why would Wilko be even remotely interested in a complete waste of space like St-wart.· And a force that isn't remotely interested in us as people ... as individuals.· Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism.
· Ismail Belig's dating of the former appointment, though remotely possible, is certainly questionable.· I have difficulty believing that the former is remotely possible.· Was it feasible, was it remotely possible, that the mutation had some sort of driving force?· Reluctantly, at the end of the exercise, Ellen saw that only four of the items were even remotely possible.· Life-ways are opened up which are not remotely possible, even in analogous terms, to any other species.
VERB
· Sandia expects to be able to remotely control the devices.
· It should not be imagined, however, that the newborn Earth remotely resembled the world in which we live today.· In the 1990s alone, some 2 million anglers have fished here without hooking anything even remotely resembling this record fish.· I never want to go through anything even remotely resembling our marriage ever again.· There is no human society that remotely resembles this particular pattern.· Nowhere inside our brains or eyes has any neuroscientist ever found anything remotely resembling our constant everyday experience of light.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Life-ways are opened up which are not remotely possible, even in analogous terms, to any other species.
1by only a small amount SYN  slightly:  The brew tasted only remotely of beer.2not remotely interested/funny/possible etc used to emphasize that someone or something is not at all interested, funny etc:  There was nothing remotely new in this idea.3from far away:  remotely operated vehicles
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