He was very earnest and thoroughgoing about it, and the affair took quite a long time.
他做事很认真，很彻底，这件事花了很长时间。
Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again.
尽管如此，后来还是有相当数量的完全陆生动物做出改变，离开了它们辛辛苦苦重新改造的陆地，并回到了水里。
A more thoroughgoing approach would be to make it harder for him to set up an account of his own.
一个更彻底的方法是让犯罪分子更难建立一个其自身的账户。
At times he calls for a thoroughgoing scepticism, even relativism, attacking the Christianity of Pascal (unconvincingly) and Francis of Assisi (amusingly).