- 1可說是、可以說
You use this when you want to say there are good reasons to treat something as true, without saying it is a fact that nobody can touch. You are giving an opinion, but you are also saying a fair person could stand with you. It sits between “maybe” and “clearly”: stronger than a guess, weaker than a sure claim. Writers like it in essays and news because it lets them push an idea without shouting. Though actually, people often stretch it. Plenty of speakers just mean “I think,” and they have not really got a strong case at all. If someone says she is arguably the best, they mean you could make a serious case for that — not that the argument is already over.
From the word’s history
From arguable + -ly.
就是 arguable 加上 -ly。
組成argue + -able + -ly. Argue is “to give reasons.” -able makes arguable, “you can give reasons for it.” -ly turns that into an adverb: “in a way you can argue for.” The older Latin verb arguō meant “to make clear” or “to prove.”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
arguablyadv/ˈɑːɡjuəbli/
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As can be supported or proven by sound logical deduction, evidence, and precedent, but without absolute certainty.
- In the early 1770s the bogey figure for opposition politicians was arguably not so much North in the Commons as Mansfield behind the curtain, the country's greatest lawyer (and another Caledonian to gratify the Scotophobes) keeping an irresolute Cabinet committed to waging war in America.
- By random chance alone, 99 times out of 100, the Lions should have won an NFL or NFC championship. Worse for arguably the league’s unluckiest fan base, the Lions haven’t really been competitive.
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