核心畫面

You can picture absolutely as 'with nothing held back, no exception, no halfway' — the dial pushed all the way to the end. From that one feeling of total, no-room-for-doubt fullness come both its plain 'completely' use and its emphatic yes/no replies.

可以想成把刻度盤一口氣推到最底、推到頭:沒有保留、沒有例外、沒有一半。所有用法都從這個「滿到頂、毫無餘地」的感覺長出更多收起可以想成把刻度盤一口氣推到最底、推到頭:沒有保留、沒有例外、沒有一半。所有用法都從這個「滿到頂、毫無餘地」的感覺長出來——既能表示「完完全全」,也能變成斬釘截鐵的「對!」或「不行!」。

Two branches

完全、毫無例外

這一群是核心畫面本身:把程度推到最滿,用來說某事「完全如此」或替強烈的字再加滿一格。

completely · r · B1

Completely and in every way.

完全地

斬釘截鐵的回應

把「滿到頂、毫無餘地」直接拿來回話:因為態度推到了極端,就成了百分百的「對」或百分百的「不」。

strong agreement, yes · r · B1

Said as 'absolutely!' to say a strong yes, that you completely agree.

當然!沒錯!

原始詞典資料4 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。

absolutelyadv/ˈæb.səˌl(j)uːt.li/

  • 1

    In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.

  • 2

    Independently; viewed without relation to other things or factors.

    • Another characteristic of numbers, which does not concern their mutual relations so much as themselves absolutely, is their ability, according to the ideas of Nicomachus, to conform to geometrical arrangements.
  • 3

    As an intensive: extremely, very, indeed.

    • But when it came to posing for publicity pictures they proved absolutely brilliant doing just what came naturally.
    • The strength of the mouse is absolutely spectacular for various kinds of issues, until you find out that the mouse has absolutely no extracellular matrix to speak of in his optic nerve head.

absolutelyintj/ˈæb.səˌl(j)uːt.li/

  • 1

    Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.

    • Is Bob a good teacher? Absolutely!
    • Do you want a free cookie with that coffee? Absolutely!

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。