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Abysmally is the adverb from abysmal: it tells you how someone did a thing, or how badly a quality shows. The team played abysmally; the soup was abysmally salty; she slept abysmally and woke still tired. Same strength as abysmal — very bad — but it needs a verb or another adjective to hang on. Though actually, the old link with abyss is even less alive here; almost nobody hears “deeply” in it any more, only “terribly”. Everyday English, a little dramatic, the same register as the adjective. It is not a softer or politer form; it is the same stamp, moved onto how something happens.
糟透地、差到不行
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。
abysmallyadv/əˈbɪz.ml̩.i/
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Very; incredibly; profoundly; to an extreme degree; dreadfully.
- Abysmally ignorant
- Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents. Not round my gaff. Oh no. My standards of housekeeping are so abysmally low that my eldest daughter was three years old before she even developed a temperature.
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。