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You use breathtakingly when something is so impressive, , or surprising that it almost stops your breath. A view can be breathtakingly beautiful. A climb can be breathtakingly steep. Though actually it is not only praise: a price can be breathtakingly high, and a mistake can be breathtakingly silly. It marks how extreme the thing is, so hard it hits you. It feels a little strong and a little written — travel talk, reviews, news — more than quiet chat about the weather. It does not describe lungs. It describes the shock or wonder.
令人屏息地
組成breathtaking + -ly. Breathtaking itself is breath + taking: as if the thing takes your breath away.
同家族的字
- breathtakingthe adjective this adverb is built from
- breaththe air the image ‘takes away’
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。
breathtakinglyadv/ˈbɹɛθˌteɪ.kɪŋ.li/
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In a breathtaking manner.
- The view was breathtakingly beautiful.
- The ensuing two hours features an energetic, unpredictable, and breathtakingly hilarious confrontation that will have you giggling for hours and perhaps days.
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To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.
- It was a breathtakingly foolish thing to say in public.
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。