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intelligibly

/in-tel-i-juh-buhl/US // ɪnˈtɛl ɪ dʒə bəl //UK // (ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbəl) //

明智地,明确地,明显地,明确地讲

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of being understood; comprehensible; clear: an intelligible response.
    • : Philosophy. apprehensible by the mind only; conceptual.

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Examples

  • Those statutes might have been written with the older “intelligible principle” rule in the background, and they might be vulnerable to the new nondelegation doctrine.

  • Can we intelligibly aggregate hundreds of millions of individual opinions into one or a few collective opinions?

  • He muttered rather than intelligibly expressed a reply, which seemed, however, to give his young wife the requisite indication.

  • And she was frightened of strange cabmen, and by no means sure that she could intelligibly explain the address.

  • It came slowly down, and tried hard to stop, in order that its source might speak intelligibly to the visitors.

  • In another case a witness was produced who could hardly speak intelligibly.

  • After three days she ceased to talk intelligibly, and at the end of a week she ceased to speak altogether.