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Callously tells you how someone acts: they do it without caring that other people are suffering. It is the adverb that matches callous. A callous decision is the thing itself; they acted callously is the way they did it. It is a sharp, formal word. You use it when you want to say the lack of care was part of the doing, not an accident.
冷酷地；無情地
組成From callous + -ly: in that uncaring way.
同家族的字
- callousthe adjective this adverb is built from
- callousnessthe noun for the same cold 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。
callouslyadv
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In a callous manner; done without regard to others' sensitivities.
- During sentencing, she added: "You told (the victims) that resistance was futile. Sometimes you would be begged to stop. You sought power over them - these women you treated callously - and used them as sex toys for your pleasure."
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。