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If you say or do something airily, you do it as if it were light and not a problem — you are not worried, or you do not treat the thing as serious. The voice is easy, almost floating. That can sound calm and confident, but it can also sound as if you do not care, or as if you are brushing someone off. “She airily said it would be fine” often means she did not really look at the trouble. It comes from airy, which can mean light, open, and not heavy; airily is the ‘in that manner’ form. It is a little literary: you meet it in stories and in slightly careful speech more than in playground talk. It never means “by plane” or “in the air.”
若無其事地、一派輕鬆地、輕描淡寫地
組成From airy + -ly. airy is light or not serious; -ly turns it into ‘in that way.’
同家族的字
- airythe adjective this adverb is built from: light, not heavy or serious
原始詞典資料2 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。
airilyadv/ˈeɹ.ə.li/
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In an airy manner.
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lightly
- In both those cases, the conservative majority operated similarly to how it behaved in J.G.G.—airily ignoring the danger posed by Trump’s actions to the republic and the people he has harmed.
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。