汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 彻头彻尾
彻头彻尾 (徹頭徹尾)
lit. from head to tail (idiom); thoroughgoing / through and through / out and out / from top to bottom
彻 Transparent / From beginning to end, all, full of meaning
从头到尾;自始至终。 犹言完完全全。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

这消息显然是个彻头彻尾的意外。

The news apparently came as a complete surprise.

这家合资企业的形成是一个彻头彻尾的灾难。

The joint venture has been an unmitigated disaster.

关于我们的报道大多都是彻头彻尾的胡编乱造。

Much of what has been written about us is out-and-out lies.

另一种观点对现代食品业持怀疑态度,甚至是彻头彻尾的敌视。

The alternative view is sceptical of, or even downright hostile to, the modern food business.

他设法制造出一种彻头彻尾的假象,让人误以为公司一派兴旺。

He had managed to create the entirely spurious impression that the company was thriving.

这就是近日来呈现在我们眼前的“现实主义”,但很显然这并非现实主义,而是彻头彻尾的投降主义。

This is what passes for realism these days. But of course this is not realism. It is impeccable capitulation.

研究人员就这些谎言分成小的谎言,夸大之词和彻头彻尾的谎言,而最多的是最后一种。

The lies they told were categorised as either subtle, exaggerations or outright lies. The most popular category of lie was the outright lie.

他是一个彻头彻尾、墨守成规的保守派;事实上,他太保守了,可能会挫败托利党近代历史中形成的期望。

He is at bottom a deeply old-fashioned Conservative; so old-fashioned, in fact, as to confound the expectations shaped by recent Tory history.

她是一个非常知名的、天分很高的先知卡珊德拉·特里劳妮的玄孙女。 (凤凰社,第37章)赫敏认为她只是一个彻头彻尾的老骗子,哈利也开始相信这一点了。

She is the great-great-granddaughter of Cassandra Trelawney, a very gifted, very famous Seer. (OP37) Hermione considers her to be nothing but an old fraud, and Harry is starting to believe that too.