Tom’s mother was highly critical of the school’s approach.
汤姆的母亲对学校的处理方法持强烈的批评态度。
highly competitive industries
竞争非常激烈的行业
a highly desirable neighborhood
宜居的街区
highly unlikely/likely/improbable/probable
It’s highly unlikely that the project will be finished on time.
这一项目很可能无法按时完工。
T.S. Eliot’s highly influential poem, ‘The Waste Land’
艾略特极有影响力的诗作《荒原》
a highly controversial issue
有很大争议的问题
2[+adj, adverbadv]VERY to a high level or standard 高度地,高水平地
highly skilled/trained/educated
She is a highly educated woman.
她是个受过高水平教育的女人。
highly paid experts
收入丰厚的专家
a highly developed economy
高度发达的经济
3highly placedIMPORTANTin an important or powerfulposition 身居高职的
a highly placed government official
身居高职的政府官员
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highly placed• The proportion of highly placedadvisers who had nothing to lose if serfs were emancipated would accordingly diminish.• Now and then, as a favor to highly placed people, Papaperformedoperations.• Some highly placed people were in fact formerpupils of his.• It is not the first time Cole has investigatedhighly placed public figures.• The Gingrich investigation is hardly the first time Cole has taken on highly placed public figures.• Last night a highly placedsource said the last 12 months had spelt the end of the marriage.
4highly strungespecially British EnglishBrE, high-strung American Englishnervous and easily upset or excited 紧张不安的,容易激动的,神经质的
a highly strung child
神经质的孩子
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highly strung• They were all very highly strung and eventually, they did break up.• But she had to leave because she was a bithighly strung; and of course you know Virginia herself was.• Being nervous, highly strung or liable to suddenanger and 2.• I think he is just an ill and shocked young man with the highly strungtemperament of so many artistic people.• Sandra was a dealerlacking in professionalexperience, who had a highly strung temperament.• Because of his finepedigree he was a little bit more highly strung than the others and would set off rather sharply.• For one thing, Nijinsky started life so excitable and highly strung that O'Brien warned his owner he might not be trainable.• Paul was highly strung, working too hard.
5GOOD/EXCELLENTif you think highly of someone or something, you think they are very good and you admire them 〔对某人、某事物〕非常赞许地,极为称赞地
highly unlikely/likely/improbable/probable• Given this, movement away from the primate city to the poor ruralregions becomes highly improbable.• Personally I thought this highly unlikely.• Scores of anecdotes in this book make these figures look highly unlikely.• But it is still highly improbable, a fluke of nature, not a predictable outcome.• However, such an outcome seems highly unlikely in the present political climate.• Investorsrealize that it is highly improbable that events will turn out as expected.• It is highly unlikely that semiconductor designs will be considered to be artistic works.
highly skilled/trained/educated• Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be.• San Diegans also are highly educated, have currentpassports and subscribe to cable in large numbers.• Scientificwages have already started to respond to what is effectively a new cheapsource of very highly skilledlabor.• Keeping highly skilledsailors in the Navy also is a challenge.• Instead there seems to be an increasing amount of discontent among people, especially the more highly educatedsections of society.• So many of our players are highly skilled, spontaneous passers.• Mrs Gorbachev was a highly educated woman-a professor of Marxist-Leninist theory.• As a result, in many countries, the wage gap between lowly and highly skilled workers has widened sharply.
highly regarded• The most highly regarded also had an articulatevision, going beyondvapid cliches of what the nation should become.• This is highly regarded and influential in police circles and the social worker would do well to be aware of its thinking.• Oldman was totally dedicated to the department and was highly regarded by his colleagues.• Darjeeling Known as the champagnetea and highly regarded for afternoon drinking.• The artist is highly regarded internationally and has exhibited in many countries.• Biondi, a highly regarded numbers cruncher, was seen as the man who was supposed to know about the reserve fund.• He has appointed a highly regardedthree-starMarine general, James L.. Jones, to be his militaryassistant.