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Apathetically is how someone acts when they do not care and will not try to change things. They answer apathetically, shrug apathetically, vote apathetically — the adverb sits on the action, not on the person. It has the same formal feel as apathetic; in speech we more often say without caring or in a couldn’t-care-less way. Though actually, it describes the manner, not the reason. A tired person and a cold person can both speak apathetically, and the word alone does not tell you which.
冷漠地、無動於衷地
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。
apatheticallyadv
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In an apathetic manner.
- Anatole and Dennis settled the question by throwing aside their upper garments; stripping, in fact, to their under drawers without troubling to ask permission from the ladies, who looked on apathetically as they crouched down on the sand close together and shivered under their skirt mantles. At a time like this the civilised and the savage approach one another very nearly.
- The fire-provider had failed. As he looked apathetically about him, his eyes chanced on the dog, sitting across the ruins of the fire from him, in the snow, making restless, hunching movements, slightly lifting one forefoot and then the other, shifting its weight back and forth on them with wistful eagerness.
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。