heav‧ily W3 / hevəli, hevɪli / 副词

1 in large amounts, to a high degree, or with great severity 同义词 very :

I became heavily involved in politics.

The report was heavily criticized in the press.

a heavily populated area

thousands of heavily armed troops

His wife was heavily pregnant at the time.

it rains/snows heavily

It’s been raining heavily all day.

drink/smoke heavily

Paul was drinking heavily by then.

heavily dependent/reliant/influenced

Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.

2 sleep heavily if you sleep heavily, you cannot be woken easily

3 breathe heavily to breathe slowly and loudly :

Breathing heavily, I stopped and sat down to rest.

4 heavily built having a large broad body that looks strong

5 if you do or say something heavily, you do it slowly and with a lot of effort, especially because you are sad or bored :

He was walking heavily, his head down.

Emily sighed heavily.

‘I suppose so,’ she said heavily.

6 be heavily into something informal to do something a lot or be very interested in it :

Sid was heavily into drugs by the time he left school.