properly speaking

基本解释

But Bear and Lehman weren't banks, properly speaking: They were hedge funds lashed to investment banks.
但是，贝尔和雷曼都不是银行，确切的说：他们是与投资银行捆绑在一起的对冲基金。
Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which was buttoned up to the chin.
严格地说，他并没有进来，他立在那半开的门口，帽子戴在头上，左手插在他那件一直扣到颈脖的礼服里。
For most Linux users, the X Window System (or "X11", but properly speaking not "X Windows") is probably just the API that their window manager calls to display GUI applications locally.
对于大多数 Linux 用户而言，X Window 系统（或“X11”，但正确地讲不是“X Windows”）可能只是其窗口管理器为在本地显示 GUI 应用程序而调用的 API。

I read all kinds of remarkable books and yet I can never make out what direction I should take, what it is that I want, properly speaking."
我读过各种各样的名著,但是我还不能决定我接下来要走的方向以及想要追求的东西，以便能得体地讲话“
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Should I live or should I shoot myself?"--properly speaking, "To be or not to be?"
我是该活着还是该打死自己？“的时候，会想到用得体的话说应该是“生存还是毁灭？“
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Roughly speaking,the answer,presumably, on the physicalist view,is going to be something like-- if I'm alive when we've got a P-functioning body, roughly speaking,I die when that stops happening, when the body breaks and it stops functioning properly.
粗略地说，从物理主义者角度看来，答案大概就是-,如果我有人格功能我就活着，粗略地说，那种人格功能停止时我就死了，当身体被破坏，机能停止时，我就死了。
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It was not until 1648 that Sevi took himself properly speaking to be the messiah.
ECONOMIST: Jewish mysticism