whole 1 S1 W1 / həʊl $ hoʊl / 形容词 #

1 [仅用于名词前] all of something 同义词 entire :

You have your whole life ahead of you!

His whole attitude bugs me.

We ate the whole cake in about ten minutes.

The whole thing (= everything about the situation ) just makes me sick.

We just sat around and watched TV the whole time (= the only thing we did was watch television ) .

I don’t believe she’s telling us the whole story (= all the facts ) .

It was months before the whole truth came out.

the whole school/country/village etc (= all the people in a school, country etc )

The whole town came out for the parade.

2 whole lot informal

a) a whole lot very much :

I’m feeling a whole lot better.

I don’t cook a whole lot anymore.

b) a whole lot (of something) a large quantity or number :

We’re going to have a whole lot of problems if we don’t finish this by tomorrow.

You can find a nice house in this neighborhood, and you don’t have to spend a whole lot.

c) the whole lot especially British English all of something :

She gave me the whole lot for 20 pounds.

3 a whole range/series/variety etc (of something) used to emphasize that there are a lot of things of a similar type :

There are a whole range of sizes to choose from.

4 complete and not divided or broken into parts :

Place a whole onion inside the chicken.

a snake swallowing a mouse whole (= swallowing it without chewing )

5 the whole point (of something) used to emphasize the purpose for doing something, especially when you believe this is unclear or has been forgotten :

I thought the whole point of the meeting was to decide which offer to accept.

6 in the whole (wide) world informal an expression meaning ‘anywhere’ or ‘at all’, used to emphasize a statement :

I have the best job in the whole wide world.

7 go the whole hog ( also go whole hog American English ) informal to do something as completely or as well as you can, without any limits :

I’m gonna go whole hog and have a live band at the barbecue.

8 the whole nine yards American English spoken including everything that is typical of or possible in an activity, situation, set of things etc :

Our new apartment complex has a tennis court, swimming pool, playground – the whole nine yards.

— wholeness 名词 [不可数名词] → a whole new ball game at ball game ( 3 ) , → the whole shebang at shebang , → the whole shooting match at shooting match , → the whole enchilada at enchilada ( 3 ) , → wholly

whole 2 S2 W2 noun #

1 the whole of something all of something, especially something that is not a physical object :
The whole of the morning was wasted trying to find the documents. 2 on the whole used to say that something is generally true :
On the whole, I thought the film was pretty good. 3 as a whole used to say that all the parts of something are being considered together :
This project will be of great benefit to the region as a whole. 4 [可数名词，通常单数] something that consists of a number of parts, but is considered as a single unit :
Two halves make a whole.