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Adeptly is the adverb of adept: it describes HOW someone does something — with real skill, and with the smoothness that comes from practice. 'She adeptly changed the subject.' 'He adeptly steered the boat between the rocks.' It does two jobs at once. It says the action was done well, and it hints that doing it was hard — that there was something to get wrong here, and the person did not get it wrong. That is why it fits so naturally with tricky social moments: adeptly avoided the question, adeptly handled the complaint. The word almost winks at the reader. Where you put it matters less than you think. Before the verb ('she adeptly handled it') is the most common and sounds most natural; after the object ('she handled it adeptly') is also correct and puts a little more weight on the skill. Though actually — this is a writer's word more than a speaker's. It turns up in reviews, reports, and journalism; in ordinary conversation people say 'really well', 'like a pro', or just 'easily'. Nothing is wrong with using it when you speak, but it will sound careful and a bit formal, so use it where that fits.
熟練地、巧妙地(做某事做得又順又漂亮)
組成adept ('skilled') + -ly, the ordinary English ending that turns an adjective into an adverb. The -ly comes from Old English -līċe, originally meaning something like 'in the manner of'.
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。
adeptlyadv
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With great skill or knowledge.
- He navigated the course adeptly, having trained on it for months ahead of time.
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。