英汉词典

1. 很，非常（用于修饰形容词或副词，表示强调）
    Very is used to give emphasis to an adjective or adverb.

    e.g. The problem and the answer are very simple...
           问题和答案都非常简单。
    e.g. It is very, very strong evidence indeed...
           这的确是非常非常有力的证据。

2. 绝不；远非；不太；稍微
    Not very is used with an adjective or adverb to say that something is not at all true, or that it is true only to a small degree.

very的解释

    e.g. She's not very impressed with them...
           她对他们没什么印象。
    e.g. I'm not very good at explaining myself...
           我不太善于为自己辩解。

3. 显然;确实;真正地
    You use very to give emphasis to an adjective that is not usually graded, when you want to say that a quality is very obvious.

    e.g. Janet looked very pregnant...
           珍妮特看上去显然是怀孕了。
    e.g. His taste strikes the English as very French...
           他的品位让英国人觉得他是个地道的法国人。

4. 完全，最（用于修饰形容词或副词最高级,表示强调）
    You use very to give emphasis to a superlative adjective or adverb. For example, if you say that something is the very best, you are emphasizing that it is the best.

    e.g. They will be helped by the very latest in navigation aids...
           他们将会受益于最新的导航系统。
    e.g. I am feeling in the very best of spirits...
           我感觉自己的精神状态绝佳。

5. （与某些名词连用，以确指最远的某一位置或时点）极端的
    You use very with certain nouns in order to specify an extreme position or extreme point in time.

    e.g. At the very back of the yard, several feet from Lenny, was a wooden shack...
           在院子的最后面离伦尼几英尺远的地方有一个小木屋。
    e.g. I turned to the very end of the book, to read the final words...
           我翻到书的最后一页去读最后的文字。

6. 正是的;合适的;同样的
    You use very with nouns to emphasize that something is exactly the right one or exactly the same one.

very的意思

    e.g. Everybody says he is the very man for the case...
           每个人都说他是接手这个案子的最佳人选。
    e.g. She died in this very house...
           她正是在这间屋子里死去的。

7. （与名词连用，强调重要性或严重性）仅仅的，唯独的，甚至于，就连
    You use very with nouns to emphasize the importance or seriousness of what you are saying.

    e.g. At one stage his very life was in danger...
           他的生命都曾一度处于危险之中。
    e.g. The very basis of Indian politics has been transformed...
           甚至于印度的政治基础都被改变了。