3strictly speakingTRUEused to say that something is true if you are going to be very exact and correct about it 严格地说
Strictly speaking, spiders are not insects.
严格地说,蜘蛛不是昆虫。
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strictly speaking• Neither the input nor the output of a Turing machine can, strictly speaking, be an infinitedecimal.• Not strictly speaking, because the wedding was in a register office, and you don't have a best man.• It is, strictly speaking, conferred by the Constitution.• That, he said, was, strictly speaking, inconceivable.• However, strictly speaking it is not a number but a physical quantity with units of mol-1.• Where there is such an approved standard it is, strictly speaking not mandatory for the manufacturer to comply with it.• Strictly speaking, spiders are not insects, although most people think they are.• Neither is an inflection of the other, so strictly speaking their differinglinguisticorigin should dictate separate indices.• This was not strictly speaking true.
4ONLYonly for a particular person, thing, or purpose and no one else 严格限定地;只限于…
This is strictly between us. Nobody else must know.
strictly forbidden• You can't smokeinside the hospital - it's strictly forbidden.• Any social contact with Silly-Willie was strictly forbidden.• He had found the porter visiting the superintendentnurse in her room, a form of social exchange that was strictly forbidden.• Adam, as a child, had been strictly forbidden ever to go in there.• Short hair is strictly forbidden for me not only because of my culture, but because of my lesbianism.• In some cultures eye contact between men and women is strictly forbiddenoutside the immediate family.• Although we have been strictly forbidden to enter the shed, my sister and I spend a lot of time in here.• Best of all, though, were the books that we had been strictly forbidden to touch.