| 词汇 | narrowly |
| 释义 | narrowly adverb uk /ˈnær.əʊ.li/ us /ˈner.oʊ.li/ B2 only by a small amount: 勉强地；差一点儿 She narrowly missed winning the race.她与大奖失之交臂。 in a limited way: 狭义地;严格地 a narrowly interpreted law狭义诠释的法律 formal carefully or in a way that shows doubt: 仔细地；质疑地 The officer looked at him narrowly through half-closed eyes.那个警察眯起眼睛仔细地打量他。 The proposal to change the rules was narrowly defeated by 201 votes to 196. He narrowly escaped a fine. The plane narrowly avoided disaster when one of the engines cut out on take-off.飞机起飞时一个发动机熄火，差点酿成重大事故。 The nationalists were narrowly beaten in the local election. Merely and barely all all of somethingidiom at a pinchidiom barely but by a whiskeridiom by inchesidiom hardly ill inch just little mere merely merest nothing more thanidiom only pinch scarcely whisker You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Range and limits Cautious and vigilant narrowly | American Dictionarynarrowly adverb us/ˈnær·ə·li/ by a very small number or amount: Voters narrowly defeated the proposed school budget. Examples of narrowlynarrowly The tryptophan pathway exemplifies the situation where paralogs can be engaged in primary amino-acid biosynthesis (widespread) or in a variety of specialized pathways (narrowly distributed). Our third aspect of the truth of example, which we can consider more narrowly critical, may suggest a distinctive relationship of process to tradition. If this recommendation is too narrowly defined, we will encourage people to look at small things like training programs. A narrowly constituted élite was seeking to instruct the wider theatre audience in the incorrectness of its taste. The acceptable limits of comfort may be too narrowly defined. At other times, however, casting a net too narrowly may lead investigators to miss what might otherwise be detected. Generosity can apply in a context in which narrowly defined justice cannot. Another chapter focuses more narrowly on issues of ecclesiastical employment and religious involvement in public education. In other cases, they become the norm simply by being recycled in a narrowly specialized field. When a given concept is being used, will activity be distributed widely or narrowly? Although this was an important factor, accounts which focus on it too narrowly are unsatisfactory. Especially in less developed countries, research on ageing still tends to prejudge people's priorities and to focus narrowly on material outcomes. Our strategy in writing our target article was to start with fairly narrowly-defined terms and gradually expand our analysis. Most narrowly, he means the organisms produced by genomes. More seriously the reliance on narrowly economic analysis often leads in places to an implicitly and perhaps accidentally over-critical position regarding trade unionism. See all examples of narrowly These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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