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彻底性;周密;细致入微。指做事认真、全面、不遗漏任何细节的品质或状态。
She checked every detail with great thoroughness before submitting the report.
她在提交报告前极其细致地检查了每一个细节。
The thoroughness of his research, which involved reviewing hundreds of primary sources over several years, earned him widespread recognition in the academic community.
他研究的彻底性历经数年审阅了数百份原始资料为他赢得了学术界的广泛认可。
由形容词 thorough 加上名词后缀 -ness 构成。thorough 源自古英语 uruh,与 through 同源,原意为"从头到尾、贯穿始终",后来引申为"彻底的、周密的"。加上 -ness 后,表示"彻底的状态或品质"。该词自中古英语时期开始广泛使用,强调做事不留死角、面面俱到的态度。