| 词组 | perfectly |
| 释义 | perfectly Both Harper 1985 and Heritage 1982 record that perfectly used as an intensive, as in • ... knew perfectly well that The Songs of Bilitis were made 'out of the whole cloth' —Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition, 1949 is sometimes objected to but is very common. Such objection as we have found (Watt 1967, Partridge 1942) is not very strong. We think you can use it without fear of criticism. A curious side issue is raised by Mary Hiatt in The Way Women Write (1977), a study which finds perfectly typical of fiction written by women but not of fiction written by men. Our evidence, which is primarily from nonfiction, suggests that both men and women use the word: • It is perfectly possible to construct an "Arab case" and a "Jewish case," each having a high degree of plausibility —Noam Chomsky, Columbia Forum, Winter 1969 • Why ship money to Switzerland, when it is perfectly safe back home? —William F. Buckley, Jr., National Rev., 25 Aug. 1970 • It was perfectly clear they were rebelling against bad treatment —Margaret Mead, Barnard Alumnae, Winter 1971 • Annabel, the heroine, was having a perfectly rotten time —P. G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh, 1915 |
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