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单词 wholeness
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wholewhole1 /hoʊl/ ●●● S1 W1 adjective Etymology Collocations 1ALL all of something SYN entire:  It took a whole day to get there. She drank a whole bottle of wine. Ricky just talked about his kids the whole time. The whole thing (=everything about a situation) really irritates me. I never learned the whole truth about what he had done.the whole school/country/town etc. (=all the people in a school, country, etc.)2NOT DIVIDED complete and not divided or broken into parts:  Place a whole onion inside the chicken.eat/swallow something whole The snake swallows its prey whole.3a whole variety/host/range etc. (of something) used to emphasize that there are a lot of different things of a similar type:  In my job I come into contact with a whole range of people.4a whole lot/bunch informal a)a large amount of something: whole of a whole bunch of money b)to a great degree:  I love her a whole lot.5the whole point (of something) an expression used to emphasize that one thing is the reason that something else happens:  The whole point of coming here was to visit the cathedral.6in the whole (wide) world an expression meaning “anywhere” or “at all,” used to emphasize a statement:  You’re my best friend in the whole wide world!7the whole nine yards spoken including everything that is typical of or possible in an activity, situation, set of things, etc.8go the whole hog informal to do something as completely or as well as you can, without any limits[Origin: Old English hal healthy, unhurt, complete] see also the whole enchilada at enchilada (3), the whole shebang at shebang, whollywholeness noun [uncountable]
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