首页英语词典wholewhole的意思

whole

英 [həʊl] 美[hol]

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近义词undivided entire total complete one solid

反义词

adj. 完整的；纯粹的
n. 整体；全部

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词态变化

复数: wholes;名词: wholeness;

中文词源

whole 全部的

来自古英语hal,整个的，完整的，健康的，来自PIE*kailo,整个的，词源同health,holy,hollow.

英英释意

1. all of something including all its component elements or parts;: "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"

2. an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;: "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

英文词源

whole: whole: [OE] Whole is at the centre of a tightlyknit family of English words descended from prehistoric Germanic *khailaz ‘undamaged’ (the other members – hail ‘salute’, hale, hallow, heal, health, and holy – have have branched off in different semantic directions, but whole has stayed fairly close to its source). The Germanic form, which also produced German heil, Dutch heel, and Swedish and Danish hel, went back to an Indo-European *qoilos, source also of Russian celyj ‘whole’ and Welsh coel ‘good omen’. Hale [13] originated as a northern variant of whole (whose wh- spelling emerged in the 16th century).

The compound wholesome was probably formed in Old English, but it is not recorded until the 12th century.
=> hail, hale, hallow, heal, health, holy
whole (adj.): Old English hal "entire, whole; unhurt, uninjured, safe; healthy, sound; genuine, straightforward," from Proto-Germanic *haila- "undamaged" (cognates: Old Saxon hel, Old Norse heill, Old Frisian hal, Middle Dutch hiel, Dutch heel, Old High German, German heil "salvation, welfare"), from PIE *kailo- "whole, uninjured, of good omen" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic celu "whole, complete;" see health).

The spelling with wh- developed early 15c. The sense in whole number is from early 14c. Whole milk is from 1782. On the whole "considering all facts or circumstances" is from 1690s. For phrase whole hog, see hog (n.).
whole (n.): "entire body or company; the full amount," late 14c., from whole (adj.).

同义词辨析

entire, whole, complete, full, total, gross, all

这些形容词都表示"完整的，全部的，整个的"之意。

entire：除了有whole的意思外，还强调既不能加一个也不减少一个的含义。

whole比entire更普通，强调每个组成部分都包括在内，无一漏掉或舍去。

complete：强调事物在内容、程度、或数量方面已完整，已达标准。

full：侧重指内容，含有能包括所有的充足内容的意味。

total与complete用法相近，但强调总量。

gross：侧重指未打折扣，未除去成本或皮重等与净重、净数相对。

all有时可与whole, entire和total换用。

total, sum, whole

这些名词均有"总数，全体"之意。

total：指总量之大，强调每一构成部分或成分均被计算在内。

sum：指两个或更多的数目相加的总和。

whole：着重其中没有部分或成分被忽略不计。

考试真题

In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding day – but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.

He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail.

The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.

It contributes greatly to the advance of society as a whole.

Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $

Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas

The savings and loan scandal, the stock market and junk bond swindles, and, of course, Watergate, have undermined the faith of many Americans in the integrity of political and economic leaders and society as a whole.

Some tables will arrive on a Sunday, order a whole chicken and a shoulder of lamb or a baby pig, and just stay for hours enjoying everything we bring out for them.

I was starting to feel like my whole world was falling apart – kind of slipping into a depression," said Carla.

There's this whole culture of competition that sucks people in" with online gaming, said Heidrich, now a father of two

Second, read a whole paragraph before you mark anything.

As part of the Kids Live Well campaign-expected to be announced nationwide Wednesday—participating restaurants must promise to offer at least one children's meal that has fewer than 600 calories(卡路里), no soft drinks and at least two items from the following food groups: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins or low-fat dairy.

Oh, yes, but I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.

Oh, yeah, we had to spend the whole time inside

Chris knows that a new job for a purchasing and maintenance manager for the whole company will be open in a few months, and he would like to be promoted to the job.

Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion.

An individual's genetics has a big influence on their height but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role.

And here's one more: We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair.

At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a "whole child" approach to schooling that respects "social-emotional development" and "deep and meaningful learning" over academics alone.

Companies soon discovered that work could be done at home and submitted online, so a whole new class of telecommuters began to earn a living from home offices unshaven and wearing pajamas (睡衣).

In fact, evidence shows almost dogs stay with one partner their whole lives.

Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious.

Nadeau notices the pre-made macaron-and-cheese boxes in Scott's shopping cart and suggests she switch to whole grain macaroni and real cheese.

Not only did it inconvenience my teaching but also my life as a whole.

The whole program started as a safe place for kids to come after school.

Their whole life centers around drugs.

They come to the university to provide us with blood samples, to be interviewed, and to help us carry out a whole range of research.

We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of food didn't depend much on how long the food was in contact with the contaminated surface——whether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.

We will lose a vital part of what has made humanity as a whole so successful as a species.

Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.

Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.

But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

To change the light source is costly because you have to change the whole fixture.

The whole fixture must be replaced—light source and luminaire—and this is never an inexpensive proposition.

Should doctors consider Medicare's budget in deciding what to use?I think ethically（在道德层面上） we are just worried about the patient in front of us and not trying to save money for the insurance industry or society as a whole, said Dr.Donald Jensen.Still

It will help to save money for society as a whole.

If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize their potential and achieve their objectives.

However,while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started crafting long-winded sentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and……" No one talks like that casually — or should

Trees need more water as temperatures rise, but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture, making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland.

Runaway fires pour even more carbon into the air, which increases temperatures, starting the whole vicious cycle all over again

Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older.

In that one second, it was a validation for my whole race," she recalls.

To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (不断积累) to the whole of society as today's children become tomorrow's productive citizenry (公民)

I think that it's grossly overstated that one needs to have contact with the opposite sex right through the whole of life, in the classroom and outside the classroom and at all ages.

Oh, yes, but I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.

Oh, yeah, we had to spend the whole time inside

Chris knows that a new job for a purchasing and maintenance manager for the whole company will be open in a few months, and he would like to be promoted to the job.

The whole Antarctic region will be submerged.

"In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night,"she wrote in the description.

"Whole foods are always the best option rather than adding supplements," he says, noting the FDA does not regulate supplements as rigorously as foods or drugs.

And then they put some bacon in the fat, broke an egg over the top, and put the whole lot in the oven for about ten minutes.

first, keeping up with the pace of technological change; recruiting high-quality staff in a time of skills shortages in it as a whole and in a highly competitive market; and the issue of retaining staff once they've been recruited and trained.

In fact, the whole show is written, directed, edited and produced by him, and is very funny and has won many awards.

In Hong Kong, I've seen girls wrapping their whole body or both legs up with a special type of slimming tape which is supposed to help make them thinner.

In Spain, many people buy a whole leg for special group events such as Christmas.

Isaac Asimov evaded the whole notion of morality in devising his three laws of robotics.

Most Americans don't eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

Participants in the study were separated into two groups—one group was asked to eat 30 grams of protein per meal in the form of whole foods.

Pipitone believes that whole foods provide the best source of protein.

The whole fixture must be replaced — light source and luminaire — and this is never an inexpensive proposition.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

Turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.

Yet in the years following the publication of this study, Steinberg began to believe that this interpretation did not capture the whole picture.

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

But Cathy woke me up early next morning, wearing her swimsuit ready to go! I told her she shouldn't swim after a whole night's coughing, but she refused to give up and insisted she go.

But herd immunity works only when nearly the whole herd joins in.

Herd immunity works well when the whole neighborhood is involved in.

If you work out in the mornings, then you will be getting the calorie burning benefits for the whole day, not in your sleep.

Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots点, which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

It was a change that took place without being noticed though it was of the extreme importance, a spiritual change which affected the whole state.

James, you've been watching TV for the whole evening.

Keep it safe at all times, and then you will not have any unpleasant accident, which could ruin your whole weekend.

Looking at the beef being cooked on the stove, the mother pictured the whole family having meals together.

On the whole, Brooks' story is acceptable if uninspired.

On the whole, our population is getting older.

She was the envy of the whole community.

The electronic waste stream is increasing three times faster than traditional garbage as a whole.

The graph is commonly used to show percentages; the whole pie represents l00 percent, so each piece is a fraction of the whole.

The real mcnay was splendid, but we felt nervous the whole time we were there.

The whole team count on Cristiano Ronaldo, and he seldom lets them down.

There's a whole lot going on.

Thus, the division, on the whole, depends on the reader.

When vaccination rates are very high, as they still are in the nation as a whole, everyone is protected.

While spain as a whole is heating up quickly, temperatures near the greenhouses have decreased.

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

But the justices should not swallow California’s argument whole.

"It's already a huge problem from a public expenditure perspective for the whole country," he says.

But the justices should not swallow California's argument whole.

For example, it is unclear whether the sequencing of a whole genome violates the patents of individual genes within it.

How the whole image is then assembled and perceived is still a mystery although it is the subject of current research.

It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what.

People are, on the whole, poor at considering back around information when making individual decisions.

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

Whole new realms of understanding—from gender to race to cultural studies—were opened up as scholars unpicked the multiplicity of lost societies.

词组搭配

in whole

entirely or fully

完全地；全部地；整个地

a number of stone churches survive in whole or in part.
许多石头建的教堂全部或部分留存下来。

in the whole (wide) world

anywhere; of all

整个世界上；所有的

he was the nicest person in the whole world.
他是全世界最好的人。

the whole nine yards

(informal, chiefly N. Amer.)everything possible or available

(非正式，主北美)任何可能的事；任何可得到的东西

send in the troops, aircraft, nuclear submarine experts, the whole nine yards.
派军队、飞机、核潜艇专家等一切能派上用场的人或物。

as a whole

All parts or aspects considered; altogether

所有部分和方面都考虑到；整个看来

disliked the acting but enjoyed the play as a whole.
不喜欢表演但整体上喜欢这个剧

on the whole

Considering everything

总的看来

on the whole, a happy marriage.
总的看来，是个幸福的结合

In most instances or cases; as a rule

在大多数情况下；大体上，基本上

can expect sunny weather, on the whole.
大体上会有睛朗的天气

实用场景例句

He spent the whole day writing.: 他整整写了一天。

We drank a whole bottle each.: 我们每人都喝了整整一瓶。

The whole country (= all the people in it) mourned her death.: 举国都在为她的逝世哀悼。

Let's forget the whole thing .: 咱们彻底忘掉这件事吧。

She wasn't telling the whole truth .: 她没有把实情都讲出来。

We offer a whole variety of weekend breaks.: 我们提供的周末假日活动丰富多彩，一应俱全。

I can't afford it─that's the whole point .: 我买不起，这就是全部的理由。

Owls usually swallow their prey whole (= without chewing it) .: 猫头鹰通常把猎物囫囵吞下。

I'm feeling a whole lot better.: 我觉得好得多了。

There were a whole lot of people I didn't know.: 有许多人我都不认识。

I lost a whole lot of money.: 我丢了好多钱。

I've sold the whole lot.: 我把所有的东西都卖了。

Four quarters make a whole.: 四个四分之一构成一个整体。

The subjects of the curriculum form a coherent whole.: 课程中的科目构成了一个连贯的整体。

The effects will last for the whole of his life.: 这些将会持续影响他的一生。

The festival will be great for our city and for the country as a whole.: 这次会演对我们城市乃至整个国家都将是意义重大的。

On the whole, I'm in favour of the idea.: 大体说来，我赞成这个想法。

He has said he will make an apology to the whole of Asia for his country's past behaviour...: 他已表示要为自己国家过去的行径向全亚洲道歉。

I was cold throughout the whole of my body.: 我浑身上下都觉得冷。

An atom itself is a complete whole, with its electrons, protons and neutrons and other elements...: 一个原子本身就是一个完整的整体，包括电子、质子、中子及其他元素。

Taken as a percentage of the whole, the mouth has to be a fairly minor body part.: 和全身比起来，嘴可算是身体中较小的一部分。

Much of the temple was ruined, but the front was whole, as well as a large hall behind it...: 庙宇的大部分都被毁坏了，但其正面及后面的大厅还保存完好。

I struck the glass with my fist with all my might; yet it remained whole...: 我用拳头拼命砸向玻璃，可它还是完好无损。

It was like seeing a whole different side of somebody...: 这就像是看到一个人完全不同的一面。

His father had helped invent a whole new way of doing business.: 他父亲帮助创造了一套全新的生意经。

He described the move as a victory for the people of South Africa as a whole...: 他把这一举动描述成整个南非人民的胜利。

As a whole we do not eat enough fibre in Britain.: 总体上我们英国人没有摄入足够的膳食纤维。

On the whole, people miss the opportunity to enjoy leisure...: 总的来说，人们渴望享受闲暇的时光。

The wine towns encountered are, on the whole, quiet and modest.: 所到的酒镇总的来说都是宁静祥和的。