mu·tu·al·ly /ˈmjuːtʃuəli/ ●○○ AWL adverbadv 1 mutually acceptable/beneficial/convenient etc BOTHsomething that is mutually acceptable etc is acceptable etc to both or all the people involved 大家都能接受的/都能获益的/都方便的等 We eventually arrived at a figure that was mutually acceptable. 我们最后商定了一个大家都能接受的数目。
2. mutually exclusive OPPOSITE/REVERSEtwo ideas or beliefs that are mutually exclusive cannot both exist or be true at the same time 〔思想或信念〕相互排斥[矛盾]的mutually exclusive• Both questions have to receive affirmative answers, and they are not mutually exclusive.• But educators there have shown that high academic standards and the concepts under-girding school-to-work are not mutually exclusive.• However, he did not seem to comprehend the possibility that self organisation and compulsion are mutually exclusive.• Of course, the three subcategories overlap, somewhat, and so are not mutually exclusive.• The transcripts start with either coding segment 1 or segment 2; coding segments 1 and 5 are mutually exclusive.• These proposals were not mutually exclusive, and most officials wanted a combination of the three, with an emphasis on one.• To a large extent these two approaches have been mutually exclusive, not to say antagonistic.• This is the case of choosing from among mutually exclusive projects with widely differing costs.