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| 1 | exact and accurate 精确的；准确的；确切的 |
| Lara was able to tell me everything that had happened in precise detail. 拉腊能够准确而详尽地告诉我所发生的事情。 |
| There is no precise definition of a storm. 对暴风雨没有确切的定义。 |
| Can you be a bit more precise? 你能不能说得更确切点？ |
| The precise date and place of his birth are unknown. 没有人知道他确切的出生日期和地点。 |
| | 1a | someone who is precise is always careful to be accurate and to behave correctly 谨小慎微的；小心翼翼的；严谨的 | |
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| 2 | only before noun used for emphasizing that something is definite or clearly true （用于强调）明确的，准确无误的 |
| At that precise moment, someone came round the corner. 恰恰在那个时候，有人从拐角处走了过来。 |
| The result of the reforms was the precise opposite of the emperor’ s intention. 改革的结果完全违背那位君主的初衷。 |
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| - | to be precise
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| used for saying that the information you are giving about something is more exact than what you have said before |
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| It’ s her 70th birthday soon, in March to be precise. 她70岁的生日很快就要到了，确切地说就在3月份。 |
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| preciseness noun U |
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