precise
adj. 清晰的; 精確的; 正規的; 精密
You use precise to emphasize that you are referring to an exact thing, rather than something vague.
I can remember the precise moment when my daughter came to see me and her new baby brother in hospital...
我能清楚地回想起我女兒來醫院看我和她剛出生的弟弟的那一刻。
The precise location of the wreck was discovered in 1988...
殘骸的確切位置是在1988年發現的。
Something that is precise is exact and accurate in all its details.
They speak very precise English...
他們講一口非常地道的英語。
He does not talk too much and what he has to say is precise and to the point.
他話不多,但他說的話既準確又中肯。
You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
More than a week ago, Thursday evening to be precise, Susanne was at her evening class...
一個多星期以前,確切地說是週四晚上,蘇珊在夜校上課。
The restaurant in which we ate that night had more people in it at 11pm, 51 more to be precise, than it did at 10pm.
那天晚上我們去吃飯的那家餐館晚上11點時比10點時人更多,準確地說多了51人。
1. sharply exact or accurate or delimited;
2. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;
accurate, exact, precise, right, true, correct
這些形容詞均含"準確的,正確的"之意。
to be precise
準確地說,確切地說
Her judgements on the present situation in the middle east are precise.
她對中東目前局勢的看法很是精準.
With her precise use of language and intimidating aspect, she was a typical traditional schoolmistress.
她說話咬文嚼字,樣子咄咄逼人, 真是一個典型的傳統式的女教師.
At that precise moment, Miss Pulteney came into the office.
就在那時, 普爾特尼小姐走進了辦公室.
These precise instruments have already gone into mass production.
這些精密儀器已經大規模投入生產.
A scientist must be precise in making tests.
科學家做試驗必須精確.