strictly

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strict·ly /ˈstrɪktli/ adverbadv

1 STRICTin a way that must be obeyed 嚴格地，嚴厲地

Alcohol is strictly forbidden on school premises.

校内嚴禁喝酒。

The ban on hunting is not strictly enforced.

狩獵禁令並未嚴格執行。

2 EXACTexactly and completely 完全地；確切地

That isn’t strictly true.

那並不完全正確。

3 strictly speaking TRUEused to say that something is true if you are going to be very exact and correct about it 嚴格地說

Strictly speaking, spiders are not insects.

嚴格地說，蜘蛛不是昆蟲。

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strictly speaking• Neither the input nor the output of a Turing machine can, strictly speaking, be an infinite decimal.• 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 differing linguistic origin should dictate separate indices.• This was not strictly speaking true.

4 ONLYonly for a particular person, thing, or purpose and no one else 嚴格限定地；只限於…

This is strictly between us. Nobody else must know.

此事僅限於你我之間，不得告訴其他任何人。

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strictly• The closing dates were strictly adhered to by the Office of Works.• He completely disregarded strictly enforced social conventions and religious restrictions in order to contact the outcasts of society.• Local driving regulations are strictly enforced.• I play the piano strictly for fun.• But Weaver's unusually modern sensibilities mark this novel strictly for the tourist market.• Mrs Berzins, who remembered herself as a young woman, did not strictly forbid her to go.• The pentecostal faith strictly forbids drunkenness, carousing, and infidelity.• The immigration laws have been strictly implemented.• Some people objected, but it was all strictly legal.• Where lordship was strong, as in Paris, the degree of self-government was strictly limited.• A Sweeter Lazarus was better written than strictly necessary.• The work is strictly on a volunteer basis.• Martha and Joan kept strictly to their part of the house.

strictly forbidden• You can't smoke inside the hospital - it's strictly forbidden.• Any social contact with Silly-Willie was strictly forbidden.• He had found the porter visiting the superintendent nurse 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 forbidden outside 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.

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