[attrib.]used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor [用作强调词,常用于修饰隐喻]真正的;确实的 the early 1970s witnessed a veritable price explosion. 20世纪70年代经历了真正的价格爆炸。
派生 veritably adverb 语源
late Middle English: from Old French, from verite 'truth' (see verity). Early senses included 'true' and 'speaking the truth', later 'genuine, actual'