to be exactformal used to emphasize that what you are saying is exact 确切地说 She has worked at the bank for many years, nine to be exact. 她已在银行工作多年，确切地说是九年。
to be exact• It was more than 20 years ago, to be exact.• And a bloody enormous hotel, to be exacting.• He had to walk through thorns to find people, but he did find them, three of them to be exact.• Most of it is used for irrigation-80 percent of it, to be exact.• Naples, Florida, to be exact.• But this case appears to be exacting a greater toll.• The paths of two lives, or three to be exact, came together for a little while and then separated.• To be exact, is something missing from their veins?• Jock now behaved, to be exact, Precisely as car-salesmen act.
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