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单词 severely
释义
severely
adverb
uk
/sɪˈvɪə.li/us
/səˈvɪr.li/

severelyadverb(VERY SERIOUSLY)

B2
veryseriously:
严重地
Theirdaughterwas severelyinjuredin acaraccident.他们的女儿在一次车祸中受了重伤。
severelydisabled/handicapped严重残疾
Jobopportunitiesare severelylimited/restrictedat themoment.眼下工作机会非常短缺。
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  • Theirmovementshave been severelycircumscribedsince thelawscame intoeffect.
  • The arms-dealingaffairhas severelydamagedthereputationof thegovernment.
  • The lastgovernmentseverelycurtailedtradeunionrights.
  • Theaccidentlefthim severelydisabled.
  • Thecourtheardhow thechildhad been severely ill-treated by hisparents.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Complicated and difficult to do
  • advanced
  • ambitious
  • ambitiously
  • another
  • arduous
  • fierce
  • formidable
  • formidably
  • get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
  • grail
  • obstinately
  • onerous
  • overdemanding
  • painstaking
  • picnic
  • tuff
  • ultra-sensitive
  • unresolved
  • unsolved
  • unwieldy
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severelyadverb(NOT KINDLY)

in a way that is notkindor does not showsympathy:
严厉地
I was severelyreprimandedby myboss.我被老板狠狠地斥责了一顿。
"I will notallowthatkindofbehaviourin myclass," theteachersaid severely.“我不会允许在我班上出现这种行为，”老师厉声说道。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Severe
  • an iron hand/fist in a velvet gloveidiom
  • austere
  • austerely
  • authoritarian
  • be heavy onsomeoneidiom
  • brutally
  • flaming
  • harsh
  • iron
  • nonsense
  • not stand any nonsenseidiom
  • pitiless
  • rigorously
  • sharp
  • sharpness
  • stern
  • sternly
  • sternness
  • stiffly
  • strict
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Serious and severe

severelyadverb(PLAINLY)

completelyplainly:
简洁地
Shedressesvery severely.她穿着非常朴素。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Plain and ordinary
  • as it comesidiom
  • austere
  • austerely
  • austerity
  • average Joe
  • generalized
  • homeliness
  • homely
  • homespun
  • homey
  • rife
  • run-of-the-mill
  • severe
  • simple
  • something/nothing to shout aboutidiom
  • unoriginal
  • unostentatiously
  • unremarkable
  • well trodden
  • workaday
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(Definition ofseverelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

severely| American Dictionary

severely
adverb
us
/səˈvɪər·li/

severelyadverb(BADLY)

in a verybadorseriousway:
Severalpeoplewere severelyinjuredin theaccident.

severelyadverb(IN AN UNKIND WAY)

in a veryunkindorunpleasantway:
Theteacherspokeseverely to thenoisychildren.
(Definition ofseverelyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofseverely

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In contrast, infectivity could beseverelyimpaired under these circumstances for those species that are dependent on an acid environment for exsheathment.
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Rents collapsed, rent collection was haphazard, neglect to pay was rampant, urban cash circulation declined, capital accumulation stagnated and investment wasseverelylimited.
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The use of labelled seedlings compensated for the high losses of seeds and early seedlings from quadrats whichseverelyreduced sample sizes.
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In this fashion, the cabinet's monopoly of perks and policy influenceseverelylimits ways in which backbenchers can trade off policy influence against promotion.
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Finally, there is a truly profound set of impediments in the systematically asymmetric preferences of the parties to agreement inseverelydivided societies.
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Without merchants or middlemen the size of the market has to beseverelyrestricted.
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All the samples are moderately toseverelyaltered due to early burial and later subaerial weathering following uplift and erosion.
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All participants in this group wereseverelyor profoundly deaf and their parents, who were deaf, signed to them from infancy.
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Because of this the potential for overshoot is always present and cannot be avoided unless the system isseverelyoverdamped.
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In these patients, the enterohepatic circulation, which reabsorbs about 90% of bile acids, is also deranged and the bile acid pool isseverelydepleted.
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However, this technique isseverelyrestricted by free-free absorption and refraction of the optical light by the plasma.
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The offspring of asymptomatic carriers may be moreseverelyaffected.
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The central pulmonary arteries were absent in one andseverelyhypoplaslic in the other.
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If a physician's sticking to principles of medical ethicsseverelyhampers the efforts of her state in a just war, shouldn't she abandon them?
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The omission is especially evident in institutional prescriptions for the reduction of ethnic conflict inseverelydivided societies.
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