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单词 ultimately
释义
ultimately
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adv

Ultimately means "at the very end of the process." Your strategy of robbing banks with a water gun worked a few times, but ultimately it was unsuccessful.
Use ultimately when you want to stress that there are many different elements of something, but in the end there's one clear conclusion. The city parks department might listen to everyone's ideas for what to do with that empty lot, but ultimately they'll do whatever they think will serve the city best. Ultimately comes from the Latin ultimāre, meaning, lying at the very end.
WORD FAMILY
ultimate: ultimacy, ultimately, ultimateness, ultimates
USAGE EXAMPLES
Ultimately, he resigned, which was the right decision.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
Ultimately, Bonds and Clemens may need that push, too.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
The idea was ultimately abandoned in the 1980s.
Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017)
adv as the end result of a succession or process
ultimately he had to give in
Syn
at last, at long last, finally, in the end
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