英 [ˈɜːnɪst] 美 [ˈɜːrnɪst]
adj. 认真的，诚挚的，真诚的
n. 预示，象征；严肃，认真（in earnest）
【名】 （Earnest）（英）欧内斯特（人名）
比较级more earnest
最高级most earnest
earnest /ˈɜːnɪst/ CET4 TEM4
习语 If something is done or happens in earnest, it happens to a much greater extent and more seriously than before. 严肃地; 正式地
Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.
活动明天正式开始。
形容词 Earnest people are very serious and sincere in what they say or do, because they think that their actions and beliefs are important. 真挚的
Catherine was a pious, earnest woman.
凯瑟琳是位虔诚、真挚的女子。
名词 a part or portion of something given in advance as a guarantee of the remainder 定金
something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
同义词： businesslike
保证金-引用次数：7
Have studied peasant’s security mechanism of peasant workers salary from two aspect of microcosmic and macroscopic, to set up the Payment earnest money system, implement the credit file systems of enterprises, enforce the management on contract.
4、从微观和宏观两个层面系统研究了建立农民工工资的保障机制，建立农民工工资支付保证金制度，实行企业的信用档案制度，严格合同管理。
参考来源农民工工资的清欠及保障机制研究
定金-引用次数：1
参考来源住宅开发项目买方融资管理研究
定金-引用次数：13
The pre-sale of commodity house refers to the act that the real estate development enterprises sell the houses under construction to purchasers and the purchasers pay the earnest money or the prices of the houses.
商品房预售是指房地产开发企业将正在建设中的商品房预先出售给买受人，并由买受人支付定金或者房价款的行为。
定金-引用次数：3
Song Dynasty presented the earnest money guarantee from this, by the grain, the tea, the fruit tree, the flowers and plants and so on product definite future incomes will carry on the mortgage to take the debt the guarantee.
宋代由此出现了定金担保,以粮食、茶叶、果木、花卉等产品确定的未来的收益进行抵押作为债务的担保。
参考来源宋代债权担保制度研究
认真的
... honesty n.诚实，正直 earnest adj.认真的，诚挚的，热切的 interest n.兴趣，关注，爱好；利息，利率；[常pl.]利益，好处，利害关系vt.使感兴趣，引起…关注 ...
降班威逼得以纾缓，但领队罗宾斯热切(Earnest)指望能够取到充裕分数，是以今场会连续施压。
... （implore;entreat;beseech;plead） 恳切地请求 （talk earnestly） 恳切地交谈 （sincere;earnest） 非常真诚恳切 ...
〖earnest;sincere;cordial〗形容态度诚恳,心情急切的样子 〖earnestly;sincerely;cordially〗真诚地 ..
earnestly 认真地；诚挚地
earnestness 认真；诚挚；正经
I'm in deadly earnest.
我是非常认真的。
The earnest young doctor answered all our questions.
这个认真的年轻医生回答了我们所有的问题。
I could tell she spoke in earnest.
我看得出她是郑重其事地说的。
Counting of ballots from Saturday's Kurdish elections has begun in earnest.
VOA : standard.2009.07.26
He has that phrase, / "Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak / to the earnest love that laid the swale in rows.
他写了这样一句，任何超过真理的东西都显得很脆弱/,用最真挚的爱意割下一排排草。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
When he was earnest in discourse, these shone, as it were, a bright- as if a bright live coal within it.
当他认真地在谈话，两只眼睛便闪闪发光，就好像明亮的燃烧着的煤块。
政治哲学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Large enterprises have started becoming social businesses in earnest, and good case studies now abound.
Right across the range of issues, our policy debate is about to start in earnest.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the latest rhetoric only deepened North Korea's isolation.