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单词 squarely
释义
squarely
adverb
uk
/ˈskweə.li/us
/ˈskwer/

squarelyadverb(DIRECTLY)

(alsosquare)
directlyandfirmly:
径直地；直截了当地；毫不含糊地
Sherefusedto come down squarely on eithersideof theargument.她拒绝直接加入争论的任何一方。
Shepunchedhim square on thejaw.她一拳不偏不倚正中他的下颌。
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  • (as) clear as dayidiom
  • (as) sure as eggs is eggsidiom
  • and that's flat!idiom
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  • assuredly
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  • deffo
  • definite
  • definitely
  • definitive
  • mistake
  • nailsomethingon
  • nailed on
  • natch
  • not miss a beatidiom
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squarelyadverb(STRAIGHT)

withweightequallybalancedon eachside, not to oneside:
合适地；公正地
Shestoodsquarely, with herfeetapart.她两脚分开，站得笔直。
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  • asymptotic
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  • glancing
  • indirect
  • non-planar
  • noncollinear
  • obliquely
  • obtuse
  • orthogonal
  • osculate
  • projection
  • prominent
  • rectilinear
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(Definition ofsquarelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

squarely| American Dictionary

squarely
adverb[not gradable]
us
/ˈskweər·li/
directlyand with nodoubt:
We have tofacetheseissuessquarely andhonestly.
Theblamefor Wade’sdeathrestssquarely on him.
Squarely alsomeansin adirectway andesp. withforce:
Williamshittheballsquarely,sendingit over thefence.
(Definition ofsquarelyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsquarely

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This view places hersquarelyin the camp of scholars who emphasize the external factors of revolution.
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That decision places himsquarelyin the mainstream of scholars who have heretofore explored the middle-class experience.
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Breese had drawn that principle into two extraordinary propositions that grounded the public tort duties of passengerssquarelyin terms of the technology of transport.
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This book has put democracy and human rightssquarelyinto their historical perceptive.
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The plaintiffs' reliability interest tiltssquarelyagainst compulsory purchase, as it will in almost all cases.
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Clearly, these problems exist in current social psychology, but should the blame fallsquarelyand entirely on the passion for the negative?
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The solutions suggested to these problems are also allsquarelywithin the realm of political economy.
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What she says, and how she says it, belongssquarelywithin pastoral traditions.
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Although the two countries are not the paradigm cases, they fallsquarelyinto the corporatist and pluralist categories.
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The most widely accepted definition of the consolidation of democracy equates itsquarelywith legitimation.
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This places his worksquarelywithin debates about how production and reception interact under capitalism.
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Thus, the analogy with human activity on which the design argumentsquarelyrests suggests indifference in the designer rather than anything else.
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Our point here is that this relatessquarelyto the ontology problem, and there is much drudgery to address the legacy software integration problem.
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The time has come for us to question these beliefs and, in so doing, tosquarelyaddress the moral status of novel part-human beings.
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Moving forward in time, his latest book is another text aimedsquarelyat the undergraduate market.
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