holus-bolus

短语

adv. 一口地, 一下子

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    All together; entirely; without modification.

    to accept a story holus-bolus.

词源

Unknown. Possibly of Ancient Greek origin, from ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) and βόλος (bólos, “a throw with a casting net”), or βῶλος (bôlos, “lump”). May have been Latinized (i.e., -us ending as in masculine singular in Latin, as opposed to -os ending for masculine singular in Greek).

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