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intimately

/in-tuh-mit-lee/US // ˈɪn tə mɪt li //

紧密地,密切,密切地,紧密

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a way that entails, assumes, or suggests a close, warm, trusting personal relationship: He was quick to rebuke others, but only those he knew intimately and loved dearly.Churchill spoke intimately and easily over the wireless to his own people during the war.
    • : in a way that arises from long or frequent direct personal experience: Cycling acquaints you intimately with every bump, slice, crease, divot, ledge, ripple, and pothole in a street.
    • : in a way that affords or encourages privacy, coziness, closeness of interaction, etc.: The small tables are so that people can converse more intimately, even among a larger group.The beautifully renovated 150-seat theater offers an intimately scaled setting with state-of-the-art acoustics.
    • : in a way that involves a close union or connection: Many of the ailments seen in the inpatient service are intimately linked to the malnutrition plaguing the region.
    • : in a way that involves or suggests sex: Posts must not contain name-calling, profanity, or intimately explicit material.Chlamydia is an intimately transmitted infection.
    • : in a deep and detailed way: Her letters and journals reveal a woman intimately involved in the day-to-day happenings of the school.
    • : in the innermost depths of one’s mind or heart: It has given me an opportunity to share ideas, thoughts, and intimately held beliefs with others equally interested in deeper questions.
    • : next to the skin, as underclothing, wigs, etc.: Please read our exchange policy carefully; these are quality garments that are worn intimately and hence cannot be exchanged or returned.

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Examples

  • It was an intimate class and I could speak in my normal voice, which I liked, but that also meant the phone was too loud for the room.

  • However, these superspreader events are intimate affairs associated with close contact and a lack of precautions.

  • Well, we’re already letting machines do this in our most intimate spaces…inside our home.

  • Now, both men are in their homes, one self-isolating and the other dodging reporters asking about those texts, including messages that emerged late Tuesday suggesting an intimate encounter.

  • It’s tough to predict what political impact the news that North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham had been sending intimate texts to a woman who isn’t his wife will have on the competitive Senate race there.

  • They wrote about subjects that they knew intimately, or that troubled or fascinated them, which is what all novelists do.

  • Now Kendall Jenner is intimately interlocked with Cara Delevingne.

  • However the American sexual ideal is intimately related to a certain idea of masculinity.

  • Other Nazi leaders would get intimately involved in the lives of the artists as well.

  • When this happened I told Michael first, very intimately and in much more detail, what was going on.

  • Indeed, his success was widely known, and Jean Baptiste had been rather curious to know the family intimately.

  • His namdee was intimately associated with French politics, from the commencement of the revolution in 1789.

  • When the mucus is small in amount and intimately mixed with the stool, the trouble is probably in the small intestine.

  • From these instruments have come all those precise examinations on which the accuracy of modern science intimately depends.

  • Nicholas Rubinstein is intimately associated with every event in Tchaikovskys private and public life.