1 ADV-GRADED [ADVERB with verb] 非常地;巨大地 If something changes substantially or is substantially different, it changes a lot or is very different. 非常地;巨大地 [formal]
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The percentage of girls in engineering has increased substantially.
学工科的女孩的比例已经大大增加了。
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The skin of an eighty-year-old looks substantially different from that of a twenty-year-old.
80 岁人的皮肤与 20 岁人的皮肤看起来有天壤之别。
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The price was substantially higher than had been expected.
价格比预计的要高很多。
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The warrants were sold to them at prices substantially below market value.
卖给他们的权证的价格大大低于其市场价值。
SYN considerably, significantly, very much, greatly
2 ADV [ADVERB adjective] 基本上;大体上;总的来说 If you say that something is substantially correct or unchanged, you mean that it is mostly correct or mostly unchanged. 基本上;大体上;总的来说 [formal]
SYN essentially, largely, mainly, materially
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