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/ri-plahy/US // rɪˈplaɪ //UK // (rɪˈplaɪ) //

回复,回答,答复,答问

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v.无主动词 verb
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    re·plied, re·ply·ing.

    • : to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond: to reply to a question.
    • : to respond by some action, performance, etc.: to reply to the enemy's fire.
    • : to return a sound; echo; resound.
    • : Law. to answer a defendant's plea.
v.有主动词 verb
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    re·plied, re·ply·ing.

    • : to return as an answer: Not a syllable did he reply. He replied that no one would go.
n.名词 noun
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    plural re·plies.

    • : an answer or response in words or writing.
    • : a response made by some action, performance, etc.

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Examples

  • It mainly took the form of replies to their posts, part of a bid to reorient political conversation.

  • When the woman responded she gave warm and friendly replies but appeared to politely deflect, delay or decline each invitation.

  • Since the beginning of April through the end of July, the publisher posted 47% more Stories and saw a 66% increase in replies and a 52% increase in impressions on those Stories.

  • Also, to boost the engagement rate of your post, make sure your reply to each and every comment.

  • Kraft also alleged during budget meetings, Carson “starts talking quieter and quieter after she asks questions so she cannot hear his reply.”

  • “Every critic encounters one book like that,” was his reply.

  • Johnson testified that he was the only one to reply, telling the cop that they were almost to where they were going.

  • He has received no reply from the government to the complaint he sent.

  • “I had not the most remote notion of what a wonderful man he was,” Darwin wrote of Aristotle in his reply to Ogle.

  • They received a letter of reply saying their help was very welcome, and to come down and pay them a visit.

  • I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

  • Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.

  • The aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.

  • "Better so," was the Senora's sole reply; and she fell again into still deeper, more perplexed thought about the hidden treasure.

  • "Marco's" reply conclusively proved his possession of a Christian spirit.