英语释义

1. serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation
a definitive victory could not give a definitive diagnosis

2. authoritative and apparently exhaustive
a definitive critical biography

3. serving to define or specify precisely
established definitive guidelines for sentencing criminals

4. serving as a perfect example quintessential
a definitive bourgeois A slow race is the definitive Leechfield competition. You win it by coming in last.
— Mary Karr

5. fully differentiated or developed
a definitive organ

6. issued as a regular stamp for the country or territory in which it is to be used

7. a postage stamp issued as a regular stamp for the country or territory in which it is to be used a definitive (see definitive entry 1 sense 5) postage stamp — compare provisional

8. not able to be argued about or changed final and settled

9. complete, accurate, and considered to be the best of its kind

片语

Verification verify definitively决定性地

finallyad 最后；终于；决定性地

reply definitively to questions如果你以热忱的态度参加会议

Mutually And Definitively相互和明确

T Definitively Chattering后摇滚

last持续；持久；继续任职；存活；（供给、资源）足够（某人）用一段时间

英汉例句

• Several types of artifact (use cases, storyboards, and so forth) can be used to support the requirement definition, but a requirement is definitively expressed as an instance of the requirement type.

  您可以使用一些类型的工件(用例，事例板，等等)来支持需求定义，但是一个需求一般是作为需求类型的实例表达的。

• This is definitively not the case.

  实际上完全不是这种情况。

• If discovered, the heavy particle would definitively show that properties like electromagnetism and radioactivity are really different facets of the same force.

  如果发现了，那重粒子将会决定性的展示出像电磁性和放射性的特性们是同一力量中十分不同的方面。

• But the suggestion that the economic pain is not yet definitively over struck a discordant note amid cheerier headlines.

  而经济难关尚未确定结束的暗示对那些较为乐观的标题新闻来说可谓是不和谐的声音。

• Before going on about 「heart surgery,」 we need to take one step back and state definitively that core systems modernization is not legacy system integration; it is much more than that.

  在讨论「心脏手术」之前，我们需要稍微暂停一下，明确说明核心系统现代化不是遗留系统集成，其中包括的工作远远不止这些。

• Science cannot definitively proof or disprove Chris「s theory, but some scientists are willing to take guesses.

  科学不能明确论证或者证明克里斯的理论，但是一些科学家乐于猜想这个理论。

• Before changing anything, it is critical to get a baseline performance number, because only a comparison to the baseline can definitively show that the system is faster or slower.

  在进行任何更改之前，获得性能基準数是很重要的，因为只有与基準进行比较才能确切说明系统变快还是变慢。

• Programmers definitively answer equally vague questions all the time, however, and people wonder why software is rarely delivered on time and within budget.

  然而，程序员肯定总在回答同样空泛的问题，而人们也在问：为什么软件很少按时并在预算内交付。

• Though cell phone signals and cancer don」t appear to be linked in this study, the committee cannot say definitively there is no connection between the two.

  尽管在这一研究中，手机信号和癌癥之间并无关联，但专家委员会并不能断言两者之间完全没有关联。

• This question will only be answered definitively after more research; however, it is safe to assert that a balanced culture is important.

  这个问题只能在进行更多研究后回答；但是，可以有把握地声称，一个和谐的文化是重要的。

• He was tried and found guilty at the time, but not definitively convicted.

  在当时的审判中，法庭发现布兰·凯尔有罪，但未最终定下罪名。

• These are tough questions, and there may not be any definitively correct answers. I sure don「t have them.

  这些都是棘手的问题，可能没有任何绝对正确的答案，我当然不会有。

• Scientists have uncovered startling new evidence which definitively show what color feathers certain dinosaurs had — reddish-orange.

  科学家们找到了新的确凿的证据证明一些恐龙的羽毛颜色是桔红色的！

• The statement passed by the State Duma appears aimed as a step toward Russia definitively breaking with its Soviet legacy.

  这份由俄罗斯国家杜马发表的申明表面了俄罗斯与前苏联坚定断绝关系的决心。

• We won」t know definitively until 2090, but essentially there's nothing we can do about it at that point in time and it changes the climate system dramatically.

  在2090年之前，我们无法确定那个灾难何时会发生，可一旦到了2090年，我们会无法改变状况，那将剧烈地改变地球的气候系统。

• This is not often a critical decision, and there may be no definitively right or wrong answer.

  这通常不是关键性的判定，也没有绝对正确或错误的答案。

• Neither side has ever definitively won, but powerful elites have lined up so consistently and effectively on the side of secrecy that calls for greater transparency have generally lost the argument.

  这两方力量谁都没有彻底赢过，但是权大势大的精英们因为保密工作出奇一致的团结在一起，以致要求公开透明的呼声已经普遍消弭了。

相似词

authoritative有权威的；命令式的；当局的

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magisterial有权威的；专横的；官吏的