| 单词 | actually |
| 释义 | actually (once / 77 pages) 1adv 2adv 3adv You might think your mom would be thrilled to open a birthday present and find a live rabbit, but actually that's the last thing she's hoping for. Actually is an adverb that means "really." Actually can be used two ways: first, as an adverb meaning "really." You might say, "It's hard to know which of these cookies will taste best without actually sampling them all." The other way to use the word actually is to imply that your expectations have been proven wrong, that the opposite of what you thought is true. You could say, "The hotel room looked spotless, but actually it turned out to have bedbugs." WORD FAMILYactual: actualise, actuality, actualize, actually+/actualise: actualisation, actualised, actualises, actualising/actuality: actualities/actualization: actualizations/actualize: actualization, actualized, actualizes, actualizing USAGE EXAMPLESSo, it is more likely that people will actually see it in their clinics in 2017. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Yates actually led Houston to its first playoff victory, then its first playoff loss the next week. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “I was actually in charge of the cement block,” Ms. Saxon said, still in awe at her construction skills. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adv in actual fact to be nominally but not actually independent no one actually saw the shark large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt Syn really 2adv used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly 2you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out she actually spoke Latin Syn in reality adv at the present moment 3the transmission screen shows the picture that is actually on the air adv as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis actually, we all help clear up after a meal actually, I haven't seen the film I'm not all that surprised actually she hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually |
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