fairly

英式音标：[ˈfeəli]

美式音标：[ˈferli]

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概况：

adv. 相当地；公平地；简直

n. (Fairly)人名；(英)费尔利

词义：

adv.

适当，相当地；公平地；完全，简直；清楚地

双语释义

adv.(副词)

公平地,公正地,诚实地 in a fair manner; honestly

相当地,适度地 a certain extent; moderately

完全地,简直 completely; actually

英英释义

fairly[ 'fεəli ]

adv.

to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

"he is fairly clever with computers"

同义词：reasonablymoderatelywithin reasonsomewhatmiddlingpassably

without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner

"deal fairly with one another"

同义词：fairevenhandedly

in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating

"they played fairly"

同义词：fairclean

用法：

词汇搭配

用作副词 (adv.)

动词+～

decide fairly公正地解决

play game fairly公正地比赛

treat sb fairly对待某人公平

～+形容词

fairly comfortable相当舒适

fairly commonplace相当常见

fairly difficult相当难

fairly easy相当容易

fairly elastic相当灵活

fairly hot相当热

fairly satisfactory相当满意

fairly young相当年轻

fairly soon相当快

fairly well相当好

同近义词辨析

quite, rather, pretty, fairly

这组词都有“相当，颇”的意思，其区别是：

quite含义比fairly稍强，与不定冠词连用时，一般放在不定冠词之前。

rather语气比quite强，褒意贬意无可使用。可与too和比较级连用。

pretty用法与rather相似。常用于非正式文体。

fairly语意最弱，多用于褒义，表示适度地、尚可的意思。不可与too或比较级连用。

双语例句

用作副词(adv.)

This company deals fairly with every client.
这家公司公正地对待每位客户。

I think I was quite fairly treated by the police.
我认为警察对我非常公正。

It's fairly hot today.
今天相当热。

His general state of health is fairly satisfactory.
他总的健康状况相当令人满意。

We're not rich but we're fairly comfortable.
我们并不富有,但生活还较宽裕。

权威例句

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同义词：tolerably,simply,relatively,reasonably,pretty,meetly,liberally,impartially,gey,equally,considerably,comparatively,commensurately,appreciably

同根词：fairness,fair

英语词源：

fairly (adv.)

c. 1400, "handsomely," from fair (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "impartially, justly" is from 1670s. Sense of "somewhat" is from 1805, a curious contrast to the earlier, but still active, sense of "totally" (1590s). Old English had fægerlice "splendidly."

造句：

1. Edit fields are often small areas where a word or two of data can be entered by a user, but they can also be fairly sophisticated text editors.

编辑字段通常是用户只能输入一两个单词数据的小区域，但它们也可以是非常复杂的文本编辑器。

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2. It is fairly common these days for modeling applications to render a rough surface for selected objects, while leaving unselected objects as wire frames.

所有对象都需要用边框代表，建模应用程序通常只绘制所选对象的粗糙表面，而用线框代表未选对象。

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3. In most cases, your application can make a fairly correct assumption based on past experience.

在多数情况下，你的应用程序能够根据之前的经验建立在一个相对正确的假设上的。

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4. However, nonmetaphorical idioms should, in general, be fairly safe for globalized interfaces.

但是总的来说，非隐喻性的习惯用法对于全球化的界面应该是相当安全的。

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5. Like a toolbar, the ribbon provides fairly direct and visual access to functions, though a user is sometimes required to change tabs to find the right button.

和工具栏一样，带条提供了相当直接和视觉化的功能访问途径，尽管使用者有时需要在单击标签后才可以发现所需的按钮。

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6. Notice how the scenario remains at a fairly high level, without getting too specific about interfaces or technologies.

需要注意到的是，这里场景剧本处于较高的层次，并没有涉及太具体的有关界面和技术的信息。

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7. Most situations that we currently consider unprotectable by Undo can actually be protected fairly well. Deleting or overwriting a file is a good example.

当前我们认为不能用撤销保护的大部分情况实际上可以保护得相当好，删除或覆盖文件就是个很好的例子。

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8. In this situation, these idioms are simple enough to learn easily, and the consequences of getting it wrong are fairly small, so it’s had little impact on the overall success of the product.

在这种情况下，这些行为很容易学习，出错的可能非常小，所以对整个产品的成功影响非常小。

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9. Usability testing requires a fairly complete and coherent design artifact to test against. Whether you are testing production software, a clickable prototype, or even a paper prototype, the point of the test is to validate a product design.

可用性测试需要在比较完善的设计成品上进行，不管测试对象是生产软件，能够点击的原型，还是纸制原型，测试的关键在于验证某个产品设计。

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10. It is fairly easy to put on a menu item, but more difficult to put on a toolbar control, although putting the explanation in a ToolTip is a good compromise (see Chapter 23 for more about toolbars and ToolTips).

将解释性撤销放在菜单项中很容易，但放在工具栏控件上会比较困难，虽然将解释性撤销放在工具提示（见第23章）中是一种很好的折中。

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