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单词 flatly
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Definition of flatly in English:

flatly

adverb ˈflatliˈflætli
  • 1Showing little interest or emotion.

    平板地,冷淡地

    ‘You'd better go’ she said flatly

    “你最好去一趟,"她冷冷地说。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘I never had any interest in lecturing,’ he says flatly.
    • ‘As you wish,’ he replied flatly and stepped out into a spot of dim light.
    • She said it flatly, a matter-of-fact statement, completely without emotion.
    • ‘I have no memory of my mother,’ she said flatly, her voice devoid of emotion.
    • ‘She's not interested,’ she replied flatly, picking up her cello and unlatching the case.
    • But Ms. Newman was not laughing when she stated flatly that it was not in her interest to jump into a job like this only to get them through a bad time and to move on.
    • Another analyst with a keen interest in the budget for over a decade said flatly the budget statement is nonsense.
    • The camera focuses again on the officials who continue reading at great length but flatly, bureaucratically, without interest.
    • But a Downing Street spokeswoman said flatly: ‘We haven't made any announcement and we are not going to make any announcement.’
    • ‘Don't shoot,’ he said, flatly, then looked out at a knot of junipers and some rusted machine parts sticking out of the bunch grass.
    • But when I asked Joel how the weather would affect the alpine moorlands, he said, flatly, ‘It is not raining.’
    • Damien answered flatly as he refilled his cup with the dark liquid from the coffee pot, ‘You obviously don't remember what happened, do you?’
    • He said it flatly, without emotion, but a muscle ticked in one side of his jaw.
    • ‘It's over,’ claims one Cabinet Minister flatly.
    • ‘We don't have that,’ said the employee on Bleeker Street flatly, deciding it wasn't worth the time to even check his computer.
    • ‘Pumps haven't worked since Nixon was in office,’ she said flatly.
    • ‘It's not my book, it's Carrie's,’ she said flatly, and turned away.
    • ‘I don't have to give you an explanation,’ she said flatly.
    • Finally, I broke away from his level, dark blue gaze and said flatly, ‘What do you want?’
    • ‘I was really self-destructive,’ he says flatly.
  • 2In a firm and unequivocal manner; absolutely.

    断然地,毫不迟疑地;绝对地

    they flatly refused to play

    他们断然拒绝比赛(或表演)。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The congressman says he flatly opposes ‘privatization’.
    • These are half-truths and lies, which flatly contradict previous statements.
    • The department would also act as underwriter for people who are flatly refused cover by private firms.
    • A further 7% flatly refused to take their healthy snack in the first place.
    • For the many real world victims, the realities of domestic violence flatly contradict such stereotypes.
    • My previous advisor flatly refused, and that's why I left his lab, and it's also why I have a gap in my CV.
    • This is, however, flatly contradicted by historical review, current doctrine, and common practice.
    • When he approached local experts in the city, they flatly refused.
    • When Gareth first asked if I wanted to give a pint, I flatly refused.
    • He flatly refused an offer of cut-price salmon for cash, saying: ‘Thanks but no thanks.’
    • We have thrown lots of ideas at the highways authority and they have flatly refused them all.
    • On other subjects his actions flatly contradict his words.
    • She flatly refused high office, for socio-political causes meant more to her.
    • Only a few have flatly refused to go to Egypt, she said.
    • I had just flatly refused to talk to anybody for a few days but Beverly came knocking at my door.
    • The law firm flatly dismisses this.
    • Nobody loves an unfeminine female who quarrels with her boss, who flatly contradicts the men around her, who insists upon the rightness of her own notions.
    • All of this evidence flatly contradicted the claims that there was a wave, trend, or epidemic of school violence.
    • Many auto operators flatly refuse to go to certain places.
    • His evidence not only flatly contradicted the testimony of the other defendants, it implicated the top echelons of the football club in a conspiracy to mislead the court.
    Synonyms
    bluntly, directly, straight, straightforwardly, frankly, candidly, forthrightly, openly, explicitly, unequivocally, unambiguously, unmistakably, plainly, clearly, flatly, positively, certainly, decisively, categorically, outright
  • 3In a smooth and even way.

    平平地,光滑地

    I applied the paint flatly

    我平抹上颜料。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Featuring many flatly painted coats of variously toned acrylic, Roberts' delicate grayish fields evoke shifts and gradations of dawn or evening light.
    • Sometimes the white lines ricochet in circular motions; others emanate from floating geometric forms that are pierced by flatly painted openings.
    • Painter John Wesley is known for his flatly painted, cartoonish canvases of figures and animals.
    • When I first saw the show, I was most excited about the bravura Red Highrise, but on returning, I grew more intrigued with other, more flatly painted works.
    • The 21 works shown here range in scale and medium from her signature cabinet-size egg temperas on panel to larger, flatly painted oils on canvas, which are the most recent.
    • In this full-length picture, her toddler grandson floats against a flatly painted, baby blue field.
    • Throughout, Baer laid the paint down flatly and evenly, and she made no effort to hide the texture of the canvas.
    • Food, jewelry and other vignettes were rather flatly painted, like signs.
    1. 3.1Photography Without marked contrast of light and dark.
      〔摄〕无显著明暗对比的,无层次的
      the photographs were lit very flatly

      这些照片的光线很缺乏层次。

Definition of flatly in US English:

flatly

adverbˈflætliˈflatlē
  • 1Showing little interest or emotion.

    平板地,冷淡地

    “You'd better go,” she said flatly

    “你最好去一趟,"她冷冷地说。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But a Downing Street spokeswoman said flatly: ‘We haven't made any announcement and we are not going to make any announcement.’
    • She said it flatly, a matter-of-fact statement, completely without emotion.
    • But when I asked Joel how the weather would affect the alpine moorlands, he said, flatly, ‘It is not raining.’
    • Finally, I broke away from his level, dark blue gaze and said flatly, ‘What do you want?’
    • ‘I was really self-destructive,’ he says flatly.
    • ‘It's not my book, it's Carrie's,’ she said flatly, and turned away.
    • ‘I never had any interest in lecturing,’ he says flatly.
    • ‘As you wish,’ he replied flatly and stepped out into a spot of dim light.
    • Another analyst with a keen interest in the budget for over a decade said flatly the budget statement is nonsense.
    • ‘It's over,’ claims one Cabinet Minister flatly.
    • The camera focuses again on the officials who continue reading at great length but flatly, bureaucratically, without interest.
    • ‘I have no memory of my mother,’ she said flatly, her voice devoid of emotion.
    • ‘I don't have to give you an explanation,’ she said flatly.
    • But Ms. Newman was not laughing when she stated flatly that it was not in her interest to jump into a job like this only to get them through a bad time and to move on.
    • ‘Don't shoot,’ he said, flatly, then looked out at a knot of junipers and some rusted machine parts sticking out of the bunch grass.
    • ‘Pumps haven't worked since Nixon was in office,’ she said flatly.
    • Damien answered flatly as he refilled his cup with the dark liquid from the coffee pot, ‘You obviously don't remember what happened, do you?’
    • ‘She's not interested,’ she replied flatly, picking up her cello and unlatching the case.
    • ‘We don't have that,’ said the employee on Bleeker Street flatly, deciding it wasn't worth the time to even check his computer.
    • He said it flatly, without emotion, but a muscle ticked in one side of his jaw.
  • 2In a firm and unequivocal manner; absolutely.

    断然地,毫不迟疑地;绝对地

    they flatly refused to play

    他们断然拒绝比赛(或表演)。

    as submodifier his view seems to me flatly contrary to our evidence

    他的观点在我看来完全和我们的证据背道而驰。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His evidence not only flatly contradicted the testimony of the other defendants, it implicated the top echelons of the football club in a conspiracy to mislead the court.
    • He flatly refused an offer of cut-price salmon for cash, saying: ‘Thanks but no thanks.’
    • These are half-truths and lies, which flatly contradict previous statements.
    • This is, however, flatly contradicted by historical review, current doctrine, and common practice.
    • The congressman says he flatly opposes ‘privatization’.
    • For the many real world victims, the realities of domestic violence flatly contradict such stereotypes.
    • My previous advisor flatly refused, and that's why I left his lab, and it's also why I have a gap in my CV.
    • The department would also act as underwriter for people who are flatly refused cover by private firms.
    • When he approached local experts in the city, they flatly refused.
    • Many auto operators flatly refuse to go to certain places.
    • She flatly refused high office, for socio-political causes meant more to her.
    • I had just flatly refused to talk to anybody for a few days but Beverly came knocking at my door.
    • When Gareth first asked if I wanted to give a pint, I flatly refused.
    • The law firm flatly dismisses this.
    • Only a few have flatly refused to go to Egypt, she said.
    • On other subjects his actions flatly contradict his words.
    • All of this evidence flatly contradicted the claims that there was a wave, trend, or epidemic of school violence.
    • We have thrown lots of ideas at the highways authority and they have flatly refused them all.
    • Nobody loves an unfeminine female who quarrels with her boss, who flatly contradicts the men around her, who insists upon the rightness of her own notions.
    • A further 7% flatly refused to take their healthy snack in the first place.
    Synonyms
    bluntly, directly, straight, straightforwardly, frankly, candidly, forthrightly, openly, explicitly, unequivocally, unambiguously, unmistakably, plainly, clearly, flatly, positively, certainly, decisively, categorically, outright
  • 3In a smooth and even way.

    平平地,光滑地

    I applied the paint flatly

    我平抹上颜料。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Painter John Wesley is known for his flatly painted, cartoonish canvases of figures and animals.
    • Food, jewelry and other vignettes were rather flatly painted, like signs.
    • In this full-length picture, her toddler grandson floats against a flatly painted, baby blue field.
    • Throughout, Baer laid the paint down flatly and evenly, and she made no effort to hide the texture of the canvas.
    • Featuring many flatly painted coats of variously toned acrylic, Roberts' delicate grayish fields evoke shifts and gradations of dawn or evening light.
    • The 21 works shown here range in scale and medium from her signature cabinet-size egg temperas on panel to larger, flatly painted oils on canvas, which are the most recent.
    • Sometimes the white lines ricochet in circular motions; others emanate from floating geometric forms that are pierced by flatly painted openings.
    • When I first saw the show, I was most excited about the bravura Red Highrise, but on returning, I grew more intrigued with other, more flatly painted works.
    1. 3.1Photography Without marked contrast of light and dark.
      〔摄〕无显著明暗对比的,无层次的
      the photographs were lit very flatly

      这些照片的光线很缺乏层次。

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