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Blindingly means “very” or “extremely,” but it does not sit in front of just any word. English speakers almost always pair it with obvious: if something is blindingly obvious, it is so clear that you would have to try not to see it. You will also hear blindingly bright, where the feeling of real light is still close, and sometimes blindingly fast. Other pairings can sound odd, so it is safer to copy the usual ones. It is lively rather than stiff — fine in talk and in colourful writing, a little strong for a very formal exam answer. Though actually, the word is only plus -ly, so the picture underneath is “in a way that blinds you”: so strong it knocks the sight out of you. That picture is still alive in “blindingly bright,” and only a step away in “blindingly obvious.”
極其、非常(幾乎都接 obvious)
組成blinding + -ly (the usual adverb ending).
同家族的字
- blindingthe stem this adverb is built on
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。
blindinglyadv/ˈblaɪndɪŋli/
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In a blinding manner.
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Extremely.
- It is blindingly obvious that we need more money.
- After an inquest's ruling yesterday, it is now official that the newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, was unlawfully killed amid the policing of the G20 protests in 2009. Many who saw the footage the Guardian obtained, which showed PC Simon Harwood striking Mr Tomlinson just before his death, will regard the verdict as a statement of the blindingly obvious.
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。