perfectly wrong 是什么意思

问题描述

有这样一句话：You are perfectly wrong. 句中的 perfectly 应是 completely 吗？

如果是 perfectly wrong，那它是什么意思呢？谢谢解答！

老师答疑

刘老师：

▲You are perfectly wrong. 句中的perfectly 应是completely吗？——你说的很对。

如果是perfectly wrong，那它是什么意思呢？——意为“完全错了，彻底错了”。

▲用 perfectly 修饰 wrong 的情况较少，不如 perfectly right 多。可能是因为 perfectly 多少有“完美无缺”的褒义，所以修饰 right 的时候更多。例如：

You are perfectly right. Louise, shall we dance some more?路易丝, 你讲得很对. 我们再跳会儿舞吧?

Your answer is not perfectly right.你的回答不太正确.

Why are you angry when everything is perfectly all right?好端端的,怎么生起气来了?

This principle is perfectly correct.这个方针是完全正确的。

▲此外，completely, so, quite, how, 甚至 very 等程度副词，都可修饰 wrong，例如：

Excuse me, but I must say you are completely wrong. 对不起，但是我必须说你完全错了。

How could we be so right and so wrong? 我们怎能相爱得如此正确又如此错误？

In my opinion, the suggestion's quite wrong.依我看，这个建议十分错误。

A man of common sense will realize how wrong it be.一个有常识的人会意识到它多么不公正。

It is very wrong for a man to live beyond his means.不按自己的收入过日子是极大的错误。

▲perfectly wrong与completely wrong意思相同。perfectly wrong与perfectly right相比，用得相对较少。

李老师：

▲《柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典》(外语教学与研究出版社 2011年7月第1版)P1940：You can use "perfectly" to emphasize an adjective or advderb, especailly when you think the person you are talking to might doubt what you are saying.

▲perfectly 相当于 completely, 在此表示强调。在 The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORAY AMERICAN ENGLISH (1990-2012) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University) http://www.americancorpus.org/ 上有5个包含“perfectly wrong”的句子：

2011  But while she believed she was very, very sane and everyone else was crazy, I was certain I was mentally ill. And we both were perfectly wrong.

2011  I was certain I was mentally ill. We both were perfectly wrong Photograph: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROB HOWARD.

2006  The wind is still perfectly wrong, but the herd continues drifting in my direction.

2005  Everyone who deeply enjoys a good cigar knows why Churchill's analogy to love is perfect and why his rule of choice is perfectly wrong.

1999  And according to Monica Lewinsky, according to Charles Ruff, according to Bill Clinton. LINDA TRIPP: And it resonates and it is completely, perfectly wrong.