| 释义 |
to the core1To the depths of one’s being: she was shaken to the core by his words...- Ultimately, he found his way back to Athens, but his NYU stint was not to be, and he was shaken to the core.
- After the last note faded away, the audience was still, shaken to the core.
- The cremation of the royal remains was therefore a catastrophe that shook Malagasy society to the core.
1.1Used to indicate that someone possesses a characteristic to a very high degree: he is a politician to the core...- On Ghantasala, she said the singer was a perfectionist to the core.
- The whole system of government procurement is utterly corrupt to the core.
- I speak not as a partisan or an opponent of any man or measure, when I say that our politics are rotten to the core.
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