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Affably means in an way: you speak or act in a friendly, easy manner. It tells you how something is done, not what kind of person someone is in general. He affably us in means the greeting was warm and unfussy. Like , it is a little formal. In everyday talk people more often say in a friendly way, , or nicely. You will meet it in stories and in polite reporting of speech.
和藹可親地、親切隨和地
組成affable + -ly (the usual English ending that turns an adjective into an adverb).
同家族的字
- affablethe adjective this adverb is made from
- affabilitythe noun from the same base
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。
affablyadv/ˈæfəbli/
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in an affable manner
- This fact shows our British independence and honest feeling—our higher orders are not such mere haughty aristocrats as the ignorant represent them: on the contrary, if a man have money they will hold out their hands to him, eat his dinners, dance at his balls, marry his daughters, or give their own lovely girls to his sons, as affably as your commonest roturier would do.
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。