entire

英 [ɪn'taɪə; en-] 美[ɪn'taɪɚ]

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entire 整个的

来自拉丁文integrum, 整体。来自in-, 不，非，-teg, 接触，词源同contagious, integrate. 即没有接触过的，完整的。

entire: entire: [14] Entire and integrity [15] have the same source – Latin integer. This meant ‘whole, complete’, and was formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and *tag-, the base which produced Latin tangere ‘touch’, source of English tactile and tangible (and indeed of intact [15], a parallel formation to entire and integrity).

English borrowed integer [16] itself as a mathematical term denoting a ‘whole’ number, and several of its Latin derivatives – not just integrity but also integral [16], from late Latin integrālis, and integrate [17], from Latin integrāre ‘make whole’. As its difference in form suggests, however, entire came via a different route.

The Latin accusative form integrum produced Vulgar Latin *integro, which passed into Old French as entier – hence English entire.
=> intact, integrity, tactile, tangible
entire (adj.): late 14c., from Old French entier "whole, unbroken, intact, complete," from Latin integrum "completeness" (nominative integer; see integer). Related: Entireness.

1. If the Commission has its way, the entire deal will be scuppered.: 如果委员会我行我素的话，整个交易将化为泡影。

2. In his long career at BP, Horton turned around two entire divisions.: 霍顿在英国石油公司漫长的职业生涯中曾经让两个部门整体上起死回生。

3. They feared that totalitarians might yet conquer the entire world.: 他们担心极权主义者会征服整个世界。

5. An entire poor section of town was bombed into oblivion.: 城市的一整片贫民区被炸为了平地。