wholly
The hot weather is partly to blame for the water shortage.炎热的天气是缺水的原因之一。
The American Civil War was fought between the North and the South partly over the issue of slavery.美国南北战争在一定程度上是南北之间围绕奴隶制问题展开的战争。
Her story is only partly true.她的描述只有部分是真实的。
Its commercial success as a city is partly due to its excellent rail and road communications.这座城市在商业上的成功部分要归功于其高效便捷的铁路和公路交通。
The floor was partly covered with a dirty old rug.部分地板上铺着肮脏的旧地毯。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Incomplete
Anglocentric
Anglocentrism
broad brush
demi-
Eurocentric
extent
hemi-
imperfect
imperfection
imperfectly
in a manner of speakingidiom
incomplete
partially
patchily
patchiness
patchy
scratch/scrape the surfaceidiom
semi
up to a pointidiom
vaguely

Examples of partly

partly
Seeing does partly let things self-show themselves as they are.
But these unfavourable changes in prices were still partly perceived as within the political realm.
This pattern of reform partly reflects differences in the intensity of organised labour's opposition to the reforms.
The respondents suggested that there was significant unmet need in the rural areas, partly because there were very few local services.
Sampling problems could therefore be partly responsible for the lack of effects observed in some cases.
Partly in response to this, scholars have turned their attention to production and consumption and the interrelations between the two.
There was also a sense that a majority enjoyed these new responsibilities, partly because they increased the opportunities for professional development.
In all, eight villages (4.7%) were wholly or partly endowed.
This is partly because nursing homes tend to be larger, and consequently afford greater economies of scale in provision.
This appeared to have arisen partly through deliberate trust policy and partly by default.
The choice of artists (and works) was based on several criteria, partly aesthetic and partly historical in nature.
What the foregoing shows is that proper observance of the ethics of belief is partly a social and not totally an individual responsibility.
In essence, financial donor aid proved to be more easily available and at least partly acted as a surrogate for domestic revenue generation.
The impact of this work comes partly from generic innovation and also the air of moral scepticism which pervades most of the essays.
This is partly because the chronological gaps so often remaining in the historiography of other areas are here evenly filled.
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