核心畫面
Picture the moment someone's go up. Something has landed well outside what people expected, and this word marks the size of that gap — not what happened, but how far it sits from the guess everyone had in their head.
可以想成「眉毛揚起來」的那一秒:事情落在你預期的範圍之外,跟你原本以為的差很多。amazingly 其實不是在形容事…更多收起
可以想成「眉毛揚起來」的那一秒:事情落在你預期的範圍之外,跟你原本以為的差很多。amazingly 其實不是在形容事情本身,而是在標記那個落差——差到讓人一時反應不過來,忍不住停下來多看一眼。原始詞典資料3 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。
amazinglyadv/əˈmeɪzɪŋli/
- 1
In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully.
- That violin solo was played amazingly.
- While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or be left out in the cold—it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way.
- 2
Difficult to believe; strange but true.
- Amazingly, no one was injured in the crash.
- Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.
- 3
To a wonder-inspiring extent.
- The car has amazingly low fuel consumption.
- The disease AIDS is wiping out a significant portion of the Gay Community and concerns about it are well-justified. But there is another disease that strikes an amazingly high percentage in our community. This disease is Chemical Dependency.
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。