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Characteristically means “in a way that is very typical of that person or thing.” If she is characteristically late, being late is part of how she is, not a one-off. If a film is characteristically quiet, quietness is the maker’s usual habit. It is an adverb, a little formal, common in essays, reviews, and careful speech. People also use it with a small smile, when the typical thing is a flaw they already know. It does not mean “in a colourful way” or “with a strong personality”; a office can still be described, but this word is about matching a known pattern.
典型地、一如其人／一如往常地
組成Built from characteristic + -ly. Characteristic sits on the same Greek root as character: kharaktḗr, a stamp or mark.
同家族的字
- characteristicthe adjective this adverb is made from
- characterthe noun at the root
- characterisethe related verb (British spelling)
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。
characteristicallyadv/ˌkɛɹəktəˈɹɪstɪkli/
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In a usual or expected way; in characteristic manner.
- Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.
- The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
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。