absolute
adjective OPAL WOPAL S
/ˈæbsəluːt/
/ˈæbsəluːt/
- total and complete
完全的；全部的；绝对的 - I've joined a class for absolute beginners.
我参加了一个绝对初学者的班。 - absolute confidence/trust/silence/truth
充满信心；绝对信任；万籁俱寂；绝对真实 - ‘You're wrong,’ she said with absolute certainty.
“你错了。” 她斩钉截铁地说。 - Clean water is an absolute necessity.
清洁的水是不可或缺的东西。 - Around them the darkness was absolute, the silence oppressive.
他们周遭一片漆黑，寂静得令人压抑。
- He demands absolute obedience from his men.
他要求下属绝对服从。 - They drove back to the house in absolute silence.
他们在绝对的沉默中开车回到了房子。
- I've joined a class for absolute beginners.
- [only before noun] used, especially in spoken English, to give emphasis to what you are saying
（口语中尤用以强调）道地的，确实的，十足的 - We must keep costs to an absolute minimum.
我们必须把成本控制在绝对最低限度。 - This room is an absolute disgrace.
这个房间真丢人！ - They're talking absolute nonsense.
他们在胡说八道。 - He must earn an absolute fortune.
他准是赚了一大笔钱。
- What an absolute idiot I’ve been!
我真是个十足的白痴！ - The way you treated her was an absolute disgrace.
你对待她的方式绝对是一种耻辱。 - There's absolute rubbish on television tonight.
今晚的电视节目简直糟糕透顶。
- We must keep costs to an absolute minimum.
- definite and without any doubt
肯定的；无疑的；明确的 - There was no absolute proof.
没有确凿的证据。 - He taught us that the laws of physics were absolute.
他教导我们说，物理定律是确实存在的。 - The story offers no clear message, no absolute truth.
这个故事没有提供明确的信息，也没有绝对的真相。
- There was no absolute proof.
- (of a legal decision) final
（法律判决）最终的 - The divorce became absolute last week.
离婚在上周已成定局。
- The divorce became absolute last week.
- not limited in any way
不受限制的；不受约束的 - absolute power/authority
无上权力；绝对权威 - an absolute ruler/monarchy (= one with no limit to their power)
独裁统治者；专制君主
- absolute power/authority
- existing or measured independently and not in relation to something else
独立的；绝对的 - Although prices are falling in absolute terms, energy is still expensive.
尽管能源的绝对售价在下降，但仍然昂贵。 - Beauty cannot be measured by any absolute standard.
美是不可能用任何绝对标准来衡量的。
- Although prices are falling in absolute terms, energy is still expensive.
词源late Middle English: from Latin absolutus ‘freed, unrestricted’, past participle of absolvere ‘set free, acquit’, from ab- ‘from’ + solvere ‘loosen’.