"I'm afraid the film was well over budget"
"painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"
"the house has fallen considerably in value"
"the price went up substantially"
"the house was substantially built"
1.非常地;巨大地
If something changessubstantially or issubstantially different, it changes a lot or is very different.
e.g. The percentage of girls in engineering has increasedsubstantially...
学工科的女孩的比例已经大大增加了。
e.g. The skin of an eighty-year-old lookssubstantially different from that of a twenty-year-old...
80 岁人的皮肤与 20 岁人的皮肤看起来有天壤之别。
2.基本上;大体上;总的来说
If you say that something issubstantially correct or unchanged, you mean that it is mostly correct or mostly unchanged.
e.g. He checked the details given and found themsubstantially correct...
他核实了一下给出的细节,发现它们基本正确。
e.g. BBC Television remains otherwisesubstantially unchanged.
而英国广播公司的电视节目在其他方面基本没有变化。
1. 基本上:alternatively 或者 |substantially 基本上 | together with 以及~
2. 相当大的;基本上;本质的:16、relevant 有关的;切题的;有实际价值或重要性的 | 17、substantially 相当大的;基本上;本质的 | 18、temporary 暂时的临时的
3. 剧烈地/显著地:延迟delaypostpone; put off | 剧烈地/显著地sharplydramatically; considerably;substantially; significantly | 越来越more and moreincreasingly; in growing numbers;
It has maintained its own institutions..substantially unchanged.
出自:W. D. Whitney