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When something happens bewilderingly, it makes you feel lost, usually because too many things are going on at the same time — too many choices, too many signs, too many people talking. You use it about the way a thing feels, not about a person: a shop can be bewilderingly full of brands; a city can be bewilderingly loud. It is a rather adverb. In everyday talk people more often say “so confusing” or “I didn’t know where to look.” Though actually, writers like it because one word carries both the confusion and the “too much” feeling. You will meet it in reviews, news, and stories more than in the playground.
令人眼花撩亂地、令人困惑地
組成bewildering (making you feel lost because there is too much) + -ly (turns it into an adverb: in that way).
同家族的字
- bewilderthe verb: to make someone feel lost and confused
- bewilderingthe adjective this adverb is built from
- bewildermentthe noun for the feeling itself
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。
bewilderinglyadv
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In a bewildering manner, or to a bewildering extent.
- ‘Yes,’ said Slartibartfast, ‘staggeringly dull. Bewilderingly so.[…]’
- Believe me, there are few more bewilderingly birdless places than a New England woodland in early fall.
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。