| 词汇 | quite |
| 释义 | quitequite /kwaɪt/ ●●● S1 W1 predeterminer , adverb 1 QUITE/FAIRLY especially American EnglishAmE very, but not extremely 非常，十分 → pretty The food in the cafeteria is usually quite good. 食堂的饭菜通常很不错。 His hair is quite thin on top now. 他头顶的头发现在很稀疏了。 Amy’s at college, and she’s doing quite well. 埃米在上大学，成绩很不错。 quite a something He’s quite a good soccer player. 他是个相当不错的足球运动员。 5 GRAMMAR 语法 Put quite before ‘a’ and an adjective and noun, not after ‘a’. quite放在a加形容词加名词之前，不放在a之后 It took quite a long time (NOT不说a quite long time). 这花了很长时间。 n GRAMMAR: Word order You say quite a before an adjective and a noun: It took quite a long time to answer the questions. ✗Don’t say: It took a quite long time.2 especially British EnglishBrE fairly, or to a small extent, but not very 很；较为 → pretty The film was quite good, but the book was much better. 电影还不错，但书更好看。 I got a letter from Sylvia quite recently. 不久前我收到了西尔维娅的一封信。 quite like/enjoy I quite like Chinese food. 我还挺喜欢中国菜的。 3 quite a lot/bit/few LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTa fairly large number or amount 许多，大量，不少 He’s got quite a lot of friends. 他的朋友很多。 Quite a few towns are now banning cars from their shopping centres. 现在有不少城镇禁止汽车驶入购物中心。 Examples from the Corpus quite a lot/bit/few• Over 296 pages, Fallows cites quite a few.• The man looks prosperous, like quite a few men.• I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade.• There's quite a bit of noise coming from the kitchens.• Obviously, you have to wear quite a lot of protective clothing to minimise the risk of getting injured.• A better day today, Miss Lavant wrote in her diary, quite a bit of sunshine.• There has been quite a lot of talk recently about adding enzymes to help the carp digest our sophisticated carp baits.• By no means, Watson; even now quite a few scientists continue to doubt. 4 [+adj/adverbadv] British EnglishBrEVERY completely 完全；十分 I’m sorry. That’s quite impossible. 我很抱歉，那是完全不可能的。 What she’s suggesting is quite ridiculous! 她的建议太荒谬了！ I think you’ve had quite enough to drink already! 我想你喝得已经够多了！ That’s quite a different matter. 那完全是另一回事。 5 not quite LITTLE/NOT VERYnot completely 不完全地 They weren’t quite ready so we waited in the car. 他们没有完全准备好，所以我们在车里等着。 I’m not quite sure where she lives. 我不太确定她住在哪儿。 Dinner’s almost ready, but not quite. 晚饭差不多好了，但还没有完全准备妥当。 Examples from the Corpus not quite• "Are you ready?" "Not quite."• The orbits of the planets are almost circular, but not quite.• We haven't quite finished yet.• Figures are fabulous Well ... not quite.• "Is he 60?" "Not quite!"• He didn't say it quite that way, but that's what he meant.• She hasn't quite finished her homework yet.• Later, they were not quite able to fathom this themselves; they sifted through the facts with grave purpose.• The weather was not quite as nice as on our two previous trips, but it kept dry.• That's a good answer but it's not quite correct.• The paint's not quite dry yet.• Give me five minutes - I'm not quite ready.• It's not quite red, it's more like a maroon color.• Not quite right, not quite plain enough or narrow enough, but getting there.• Three other wanderers, not quite so dazed, allowed Billy to tag along.• I'm not quite sure how the system works.• Indirectly, perhaps, but not quite that openly.• It was not quite the end of the world as we know it, but it was close.• But that's not quite the point.• It's not quite time to go yet. 6 not quite why/what/where etc EXACTnot exactly why, what, where etc 不完全是因为/是…那样/是某地等 The play wasn’t quite what we expected. 该剧不像我们想的那么好。 Examples from the Corpus not quite why/what/where etc• The whole situation was very unusual and not quite what I expected it to be.• They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin.• But it is not quite what it seems.• So Feuerbach's sensuous anthropology, much praised even by Karl Barth, is not quite what it seems.• Only his shoes seemed to be a little too pointed - not quite what men one knew would wear.• Somehow we get the feeling this is not quite what Tucson Mayor George Miller had in mind.• This is not quite what was expected.• That is not quite what we suggested, which was that it should have regard to affordability. 7 quite a something/quite some something British EnglishBrEUNUSUAL used before a noun to emphasize that something is very good, large, interesting etc 不寻常的；出众的；相当不错的〔用于名词前作强调〕 That was quite a party you had. 你的聚会搞得非常不错。 The engines make quite a noise. 引擎的声音很大。 It’s quite some distance away. 那儿相当远。 Examples from the Corpus quite a something/quite some something• In this kind of organization a directive style would be seen as quite out-of-place.• Let us start from an observation which may seem quite unconnected.• The breeding range of island species is small and therefore vulnerable, and the species themselves may be quite primitive.• The poll shows that Mr Livingstone's cross-party popularity is quite unprecedented.• The problem begins when we realize that some companies are actually quite genuine.• But some are quite skeptical of some of his initiatives.• Dorothy and I love the city, although our children have quite honestly had some problems.• Vassar was just becoming co-ed and there was a lot of tension and, quite frankly, some weird men. 8 quite a/some time especially British EnglishBrE a fairly long time 相当长的时间 We’ve been waiting for quite some time now. 我们已经等了相当长的时间。 Examples from the Corpus quite a/some time• He found out we had been pulling the wool over his eyes for quite some time.• If the skin and gills are kept moist they can remain out of water for quite some time.• It must have taken quite a time.• It was brought to her before I really got to know her, but it was with her for quite some time.• Uh I have no for quite some time.• Judging the competition has taken quite some time and was no easy matter.• In other words, it Adll be quite some time before the kinks are worked out of the system.• For quite some time he lived with the expectation that he was going to die. 9 quite right British EnglishBrEAGREE used to show that you agree strongly with someone 完全正确 ‘I refuse to do any more work.’ ‘Quite right. They can’t expect you to work for nothing.’ “我拒绝再做任何事情了。”“说得对。他们不能让你无偿工作。” Examples from the Corpus quite right• But this is not quite right.• He was even happy to agree when Louise suggested that the buttons on the jacket were not quite right.• Now that is very wrong, and yet, somehow, quite right.• They'd shared a bed in Cumberland and she had comforted Gordon because nothing was quite right.• If he thinks something isn't quite right he tells me.• Not quite right, not quite plain enough or narrow enough, but getting there.• It is quite right that members sensitivities should be aired.• Distracted vicars want action against the furry little pests, and quite right too. 10 that’s quite all right British EnglishBrEYES used to reply to someone that you are not angry about something they have done 没有关系 ‘I’m sorry we’re so late.’ ‘That’s quite all right.’ “很抱歉我们来得太晚了。”“没有关系。” 11 quite/quite so British EnglishBrE formal used to show that you agree with what someone is saying 是这样，是的 SYN exactly ‘They really should have thought of this before.’ ‘Yes, quite.’ “他们之前确实就该想到这一点。”“正是。” Examples from the Corpus quite/quite so• No hotel service could be quite so crass.• The people might be made to kneel, but the elements were not quite so easy to muzzle.• Mental programming, of course, does not have to be quite so extreme.• It's not quite so good the second time around, never mind the fourth or fifth.• In fact, my recent diet hadn't been quite so reckless.• It was all right walking in the mountains but not quite so safe-looking to drive.• The voices of the neighborhood teenagers are not quite so shrill.• At Carville, things were not quite so stark. 12 quite something especially British EnglishBrEGOOD/EXCELLENT used to say that someone or something is very impressive 令人难忘的人[事]；不寻常的人[事] It’s quite something to walk out on stage in front of 20,000 people. 上台面对两万名观众这很了不起。 Examples from the Corpus quite something• Would have been quite something if they'd brought him back.• It is quite something to discover giant tubeworms clustered around warm water flowing from the seafloor.• Matthau, who has died aged 79, was quite something.• Putting some one's shoulder back into place standing on a six inch ledge is quite something.• Then he said: This is quite something.• To most of us, however, nothing is more obvious than that the universe really is quite something. Examples from the Corpus quite impossible• And the Presbyterians are quite impossible.• For others, that is quite impossible.• It was purchased because the sound of the river made reaching him by any other means quite impossible.• Very unlikely, though perhaps not quite impossible.• Citrus shrubs are wonderfully fragrant evergreens, but quite impossible outdoors without protection.• Jack tried but it was quite impossible; the button, like the steering wheel, was red hot.• It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years' time.• So popular were the proscribed celebrations that it proved quite impossible to eradicate them completely. (1300-1400) quit, quite “free of” ((13-19 centuries)), from Old French quite; → QUIT |
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