| 单词 | fairly |
| 释义 | fair·ly 1. a. (1) < she likes to be overlooking the table with its fairly set dishes and silver — Eve Langley > (2) of writing < one little essay … written out fairly for the press but never published — Richard Garnett †1906 > < you excelled in writing fairly — George Lillo > b. obsolete c. obsolete 2. a. < when the captain is on board and we are fairly off — Rachel Henning > < amongst the boys scurrying to their ten-o'clocks I fairly caught sight of him — Atlantic > < when I had him fairly seated in a hackney coach with me — James Boswell > < the chestnut, finding himself fairly in for it, struck out gamely — Henry Lapham > < badly wounded before the battle had fairly begun > b. < the pages fairly quiver with indignation — Alban Baer > < its waters … are fairly alive with crocodiles — Tom Marvel > < fairly boiling over with pride — Dorothy C. Fisher > < fairly lifted the waters of the gulf and hurled them through the city — A.F.Harlow > c. < one of her 8-inch salvos smashed fairly into a large warship — Time > 3. a. < our business is to show that the doctrine is false and this we may fairly claim to have done — A.J.Ayer > < his services have fairly earned him promotion > b. (1) < fought and beat him fairly > < come by something fairly > (2) < the merits of the plea were fairly considered > < fairly described as all very decayed and horrible > 4. < a fairly difficult scientific text > < a fairly steady diet of lamb and beef > : moderately well < how are you getting along? Only fairly > : pleasantly < the evening passed away very fairly — Henry Lapham > |
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