exactly
adv. 精確地,確切地; 正是如此; (要求得到更多資訊)究竟,到底
You use exactly before an amount, number, or position to emphasize that it is no more, no less, or no different from what you are stating.
Each corner had a guard tower, each of which was exactly ten meters in height...
每個角落都有一座警戒塔,每座警戒塔正好10米高。
Agnew's car pulled into the driveway at exactly five o'clock...
阿格紐的車在5點整駛入了車道。
If you say 'Exactly', you are agreeing with someone or emphasizing the truth of what they say. If you say 'Not exactly', you are telling them politely that they are wrong in part of what they are saying.
Eve nodded, almost approvingly. 'Exactly.'...
伊芙幾乎贊同地點了點頭。“確實如此。”
'We don't know the answer to that.' — 'Exactly — so shut up and stop speculating.'...
“我們不知道那個問題的答案。”——“就是——那就閉嘴,別瞎猜。”
You use not exactly to indicate that a meaning or situation is slightly different from what people think or expect.
He's not exactly homeless, he just hangs out in this park.
確切來說他並不算是無家可歸,他只是老在這個公園裡轉悠。
You can use not exactly to show that you mean the opposite of what you are saying.
This was not exactly what I wanted to hear...
這根本不是我想聽到的。
Sailing is not exactly cheap.
帆船運動根本就不便宜。
You use exactly with a question to show that you disapprove of what the person you are talking to is doing or saying.
What exactly do you mean?...
你到底什麼意思?
Exactly what are you looking for?
你到底在找什麼?
1. indicating exactness or preciseness;
2. just as it should be;
3. in a precise manner;
not exactly informal 非正式
並不;根本不
不完全
It happened exactly as expected.
果如所料
Good, you have exactly hit off the writer's style.
很好, 你已將那位作家的風格確切地刻畫出來了.
I beg your pardon, what you say is not exactly correct.
對不起, 你說的話並不完全對.
At exactly that moment, the telephone rang.
正在這時電話鈴響了.
She told me the whole story exactly as it happened.
她把發生的事源源本本地告訴了我.