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definitively

/dih-fin-i-tiv-lee/US // dɪˈfɪn ɪ tɪv li //

明确地,确定地,肯定地,确定无疑地

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a way that is definite, complete, final, or absolute: There is no forensic evidence to definitively identify the attacker.The court's ruling is seen as a missed opportunity to resolve the issue definitively.

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Examples

  • It’s too early for a definitive evaluation of what happened, because exit polls are no more reliable than pre-election polls.

  • There was no definitive discussion that I’m aware of on what was going to be left.

  • In a highly polarized era, most elections are going to be close — close enough as to exceed the ability of polls to provide you with a definitive answer.

  • Both will still require more data to get a definitive answer, but for now, I think this is really good news.

  • She and a helper lowered down with cords more than 1,000 of the most valuable pressed plants from an upper floor, including the definitive specimen of Franciscan manzanita.

  • If this Dear Leader is definitively tied to the Sony hack, we may be at the beginning of an even more dangerous new era.

  • Earlier this year, al Qaeda split with ISIS definitively in a public repudiation of the group.

  • The 2012 Republican Platform still states definitively: “We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.”

  • While we have not definitively located the video, in one video tanks can be seen crossing a pontoon bridge into Ukraine.

  • He is being baited daily to say, definitively, that he is running.

  • Certainly not, said the Doctor, definitively; there will be no rest from overturnings till He whose right it is shall come.

  • In this strange conflict between laws and manners, upon which side will the drama definitively take up its stand?

  • The law was accordingly voted definitively on December 6, 1905, and at once promulgated.

  • The document having been definitively drawn up, one of the notaries began reading it.

  • It was not copied out fair; and the conclusions, as well as the exordium, were not definitively drawn up.