【complete音标】 英[kəmˈpli:t] 美[kəmˈpli:t]
【单词释义】 complete是什么意思：
adj.（用以强调）完全的；完成的；达到结尾的；完整的
vt.完成，使完满；结束；填写（表格）
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] completes
[单词现在分词] completing
[单词过去式] completed
[单词过去分词] completed
【complete形近词/近似词】
replete adj.充满的；装满的；饱食的；供应充足的 n.[昆]贮蜜蚁
deplete v.耗尽，用尽；大量减少；使枯竭
incomplete adj.不完全的；不完整的；不完善的，未完成的
【近义词解析】
◇ 结束，完成
accomplish v. 完成，实现：较正式用词，尤指通过努力成功地完成某事。
finish v. 完成，结束：最普通用词，指完成某事，常后接名词或动名词，但不可后接动词不定式；也指事件、活动或时期等结束。
complete v. 完成，结束：尤指经历较长时间后完成或做成某事物，通常用被动语态。
terminate v. [正式]结束，终止：指合同、协议等终止或使之终止；也作医学术语，指终止妊娠。
【单词例句】
◇ The old minister listened attentively to their words, in order that he might repeat them to the Emperor; and then the knaves asked for more silk and gold, saying that it was necessary to complete what they had begun.
这位老大臣注意地听着，以便回到皇帝那里去时，可以照样背得出来。事实上他也就这样办了。
◇ Four office workers were asked to transcribe two 600-word sets of song lyrics. The first set was transcribed with no music playing, while the other was completed with classical music playing in the background.
四名办公室职员被要求抄写两套600字的歌词，第一套是在没有音乐播放的情况下抄写的，而另一套则是在播放古典音乐的背景下完成的。
---- Listening to classical music at work boosts productivity
◇ After completing its first year of observations in the southern sky, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has spotted some intriguing new exoplanets only 31 light-years away from Earth.
美国宇航局（NASA）的过境系外行星测量卫星（TESS）在完成对南半球天空的第一年观测后，发现了几颗距离地球仅31光年的有趣的新系外行星。
---- NASA finds potentially habitable super-Earth
◇ According to Barnes, some employees have found the reduced time to complete their work stressful. "People were really positive going in, then a bit negative, then positive again," says Barnes. "In general terms, people are more positive because they are suddenly able to do things that they otherwise couldn't do."
巴恩斯说，一些员工因为完成工作的时间变短而感到压力重重。他说：“刚开始人们真的很积极，然后会有点消极，接着又会变得积极。普遍来说，人们变得更积极了，因为他们突然能够做那些本来做不了的事了。”
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ We knew that we were created from their love but that their love was an entity separate from us,a circle complete within itself.
我们深知，我们是他们爱情的结晶，不过，即使没有我们，他二人的爱也已经是完美无瑕，毫无缺憾的了。
---- To Love Enough
◇ I want a wife who assumes the complete responsibility for birth control, because I do not want more children. I want a wife who will remain sexually faithful to me so that I do not have to clutter up my intellectual life with jealousies.
我希望有一个能负起计划生育全部责任的老婆，因为我不想要更多的孩子了。我希望有一个对我性专一的老婆，这样我就不会因为争风吃醋而影响学业了。
---- I Want a Wife