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When you speak boastfully, you talk about yourself as if you are better than other people, and you make sure they hear it. You might speak boastfully about marks, money, looks, or how clever you are. It is an adverb, so it tells us HOW someone talks or acts, not what kind of person they are: he smiled boastfully; she answered boastfully. It is not a kind word — if someone says you spoke boastfully, they think you went too far and made other people uncomfortable. Though actually, in everyday talk we more often use the verb: He's boasting again. Boastfully turns up more in writing, stories, and when a teacher is naming the behaviour.
自誇地、吹噓地
組成From boastful + -ly. Boastful means full of proud talk about yourself; -ly turns that into an adverb: in a boastful way.
同家族的字
- boastthe verb this family is built on — to talk too proudly about yourself
- boastfulthe adjective; boastfully is boastful + -ly
- boastfulnessthe noun for the same quality
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。
boastfullyadv
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In a boastful manner.
- Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland "the week that changed the world"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign emissaries of the previous centuries who went to Peking to pay homage at the Chinese Imperial Court. Nixon's hosts must have laughed in their sleeves at his behavior during their meetings.
- Figures from both groups – rightwing activist Charlie Kirk and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – boastfully shared these images on X, with the latter sarcastically thanking South Park for helping them in their recruiting efforts. (The show responded on X by asking DHS “Wait, so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks”.)
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。