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    /ɪnˈtaɪər/ · /ɪnˈtaɪə/

    Used to say you mean all of something, with nothing left out.

    整個的

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核心畫面

You can picture entire as something whole and untouched — nothing off, nothing missing. It comes from Latin 'integer', 'whole, untouched', the same root as 'integrity': you point at the thing and mean the complete shape of it, every part included.

可以想成一個完整、沒被動過的東西——沒有缺角，也沒漏掉任何一塊。它源自拉丁文 integer「完整、未被觸碰」，跟 …更多收起可以想成一個完整、沒被動過的東西——沒有缺角，也沒漏掉任何一塊。它源自拉丁文 integer「完整、未被觸碰」，跟 integrity（完整、正直）同源。當你說 entire，你是指著那個東西完整的全貌，每一部分都算在內。

From the word’s history

From Latin 'integer', 'whole, complete, untouched' (in- 'not' + tangere 'to touch') — the same root as 'integrity'. Entire means the thing in its untouched, complete whole.

源自拉丁文 integer「完整、未被觸碰」（in-「沒有」＋ tangere「碰」），與 integrity 同源。entire 指的就是那個東西未經減損、完整的整體。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'entire'

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

entireadj/ɪnˈtaɪə/

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    Whole; complete.

    • We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
    • No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
  • 2

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving a smooth margin without any indentation.

    • Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.
  • 3

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesConsisting of a single piece, as a corolla.

  • 4

    complex-analysismathematicssciencesComplex-differentiable on all of ℂ.

  • 5

    Not gelded.

    • On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
  • 6

    Morally whole; pure; sheer.

    • See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
    • No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
  • 7

    Internal; interior.

    • Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

entirenoun/ɪnˈtaɪə/

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    archaicThe whole of something; the entirety.

    • In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
    • ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
  • 2

    An uncastrated horse; a stallion.

    • He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
  • 3

    hobbieslifestylephilatelyA complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.

  • 4

    Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。