properly speaking

英 美
  • 确切地说
  • properly adv.适当地;正确地;完全地
  • speaking adj.发言的;能说的;能说明问题的;栩栩如生的动词speak的现在分词.
Adverb:
  1. in actual fact;

    "properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"

    1. Literally speaking, the consumer logic takes over.
      确切地说,消费者成了主导。
    2. Helios, on the contrary, remained, properly speaking, only the orb of the sun which is visible in the heavens by day, and disappears by night in a regular course.
      确切地说,赫利奥斯只是天宇中掌管太阳的神,白天看得见,晚上则消失在夜色中。

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