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If you do something absently, your hands are busy but your mind is somewhere else. You nod absently while someone talks; you stir your coffee absently; you stare absently out of the window. You are physically there — though actually you are not really with what is happening. It is a close cousin of absent-minded. The word is gentle, not angry: it does not mean you are rude on purpose, only that your attention has wandered. Do not use it to mean “I was not in the building.” That is absent, not absently.
心不在焉地
組成absent + -ly. The -ly turns the adjective into an adverb: in an absent way.
同家族的字
- absentthe adjective; add -ly to make the adverb
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
absentlyadv/ˈæb.sn̩t.li/
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In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.
- When he is in company he will sit absently muttering over a heap of Arabick, or in a Ciceronian attitude, declaim with all the vehemency of eloquence […]
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34, […] his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。