2EXACTused to emphasize that a particular thing is completely true or correct 恰好,正是〔用于强调〕
Women in these jobs are paid less precisely because most of the jobs are held by women rather than men.
从事这些工作的女性报酬之所以较低正是因为做这些工作的人大部分是女性而不是男性。
She’s precisely the kind of person we’re looking for.
她正是我们要找的那种人。
3spoken formalAGREE used to say that you agree completely with someone 对,确实如此
‘It needs to be dealt with now.’ ‘Precisely, before it gets any worse.’
“现在应该处理这件事了。”“确实如此,趁它还没有变得更糟。”
Examples from the Corpus
precisely• We arrived at the hotel at precisely 10:30.• Fife Symington has been in office precisely 18 days.• The different categories of traveller are very hard to assess at all precisely.• The cloud cover as well as the atmospheric conditions are preciselydefined.• What precisely do you mean by 'relativity'?• That world evolves in a clear and deterministic way, being governed by preciselyformulatedmathematicalequations.• We need to know precisely how much this is going to cost.• They are, of course, precisely right.• Further down the scale the monarchic principleconstitutes an obstacle to precisely that sense of responsibility about which we hear so much.• The new legislation won't solve the problem - it will do precisely the opposite.• That is precisely the point I was trying to make earlier.• What precisely, then, do we mean by churchunion?• Can you tell us more precisely what happened?
precisely because• It is precisely because all is not certain that we have to make certain.• Now Fuchs is a particularly good advertisement for healtheconomics, precisely because he is no genius.• The whole process is inescapableprecisely because more and more people want it to be so.• Some might envy his position down in Ca Mau, precisely because nothing was happening.• The answer is: precisely because of this doctrine.• It is precisely because such a code does not exist, that we live in a period of uncertainty and experimentation.• Indeed, many people seem to feel uncomfortable at a concertprecisely because the occasiondemandsconcentratedlistening.