| 词组 | fair |
| 释义 | fair ◊ 'fair' You say that behaviour or a decision is fair when it is reasonable, right, or just. It wouldn't be fair to disturb the children's education at this stage. Be fair, darling. It's not their fault. ◊ 'fairly' You do not use fair as an adverb, except in the expression 'play fair'. If you want to say that something is done in a reasonable or just way, the word you use is fairly. We want it to be fairly distributed. He had not put the defence case fairly to the jury. Fairly also means 'to quite a large degree'. The information was fairly accurate. I wrote the first part fairly quickly. ◊ WARNING You do not use fairly in front of a comparative form. You do not say, for example, 'The train is fairly quicker than the bus'. In conversation, you say 'The train is a bit quicker than the bus'. Golf's a bit more expensive. I began to understand her a bit better. In writing, you use rather or somewhat. Edberg is a rather better grass-court player than Kratzmann. This appearance came somewhat earlier than originally planned. Many other words and expressions can be used to indicate degree. For graded lists, see section on degree in entry at ↑ |
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