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单词 heavily
释义

heavily

/ˈhɛvɪli /
adverb
1To a great degree; in large amounts: it was raining heavily he had been drinking heavily for six months she is heavily pregnant...
  • The bacterial outbreak was attributed to the use of heavily diluted disinfectant.
  • The company invested heavily in advertising to modernise its staid image.
  • The word beefy is used to indicate a powerful, perhaps heavily alcoholic wine, with a very chewy or mouth-filling impact.

Synonyms

laboriously, slowly, ponderously, steadily, deliberately, woodenly, stiffly, with heavy steps, with leaden steps;
with difficulty, painfully, awkwardly, clumsily;
gloomily, dejectedly, sluggishly, dully
decisively, utterly, completely, thoroughly, totally, conclusively, roundly, soundly, absolutely
excessively, to excess, immoderately, copiously, inordinately, intemperately, a great deal, too much, very much, overmuch, to a great extent, to too great an extent, without restraint, without control
densely, closely, thickly, compactly
deeply, extremely, very, greatly, exceedingly, enormously, terribly, tremendously, awfully, profoundly
informal seriously
majorly
British informal jolly, ever so
1.1To a large extent; very or very much: the country is heavily dependent on banana exports he was heavily influenced by the Impressionists...
  • Like many involved with the Spiritual Rights Foundation, they left heavily in debt.
  • Many factory outlets sell winter accessories at heavily discounted prices.
  • A few minutes later we stood on the beach under a heavily clouded sky, looking out over a millpond sea.
2With a lot of force or effort; with weight: she fell heavily to the ground he sat down heavily in the chair...
  • He fell very heavily on his, erm, backside.
  • The door closed heavily behind Lawrence.
  • Dr. Lawrence was strolling at a leisurely pace, leaning rather heavily on his walking stick.
2.1In a way that is mentally oppressive or hard to endure: it is a burden that weighs heavily on his shoulders tension hung heavily in the air...
  • Sometimes, the weight of memory and time weighs heavily.
  • The weight of expectation understandably rests heavily on his shoulders.
  • But right now this is weighing so heavily on my mind that I don't know how I can not mention it.
2.2Slowly and loudly: she was breathing heavily the man in the next room was snoring heavily...
  • "Gallant Jong Suk" was her nickname, named after her habit of breathing heavily when working and marching.
  • It was some time later when they eventually drew slightly apart, both gasping to breathe heavily, hardly able to speak.
2.3In a slow way that expresses sadness: he sighed heavily...
  • Its king breathed heavily in his palace, all alone.
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