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incomplete

adjective
🔊/ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt/
🔊/ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt/
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  1. not having everything that it should have; not finished or complete不完整的；不完全的；不完善的
    • an incomplete set of figures一组不完整的数字
    • Spoken language contains many incomplete sentences.口语中有很多不完整的句子。🔊🔊
    • Our holiday would be incomplete without some time on the tennis courts.如果没有时间在网球场上，我们的假期将是不完整的。
    opposite complete
    Extra Examples
    • Her collection remained incomplete.她的收藏还是不全。
    • The building was left incomplete.那幢楼没建完就停工了。
    • The police acted on incomplete information.警方根据不完整的信息采取了行动。
    • The data was incomplete.数据不完整。
    • The statistics only provide an incomplete picture.统计数据仅能让人们看到部分情形。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • remain
    • leave something
    • …
    adverb
    • seriously
    • very
    • woefully
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- ‘not’ + completus ‘filled, finished’, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.

incomplete

noun
🔊/ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt/
🔊/ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt/
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  1. the grade that a student gets for a course of education when they have not completed all the work for that course（学业成绩评分）未修毕，未完成
    Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- ‘not’ + completus ‘filled, finished’, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.