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When someone does something chirpily, they do it in a happy, light, lively way — the kind of happy that feels a bit like a small bird in the morning. You mostly hear it about how a person talks or moves: they answer chirpily, they wave chirpily, they get up chirpily. It is not heavy, serious joy. It is bright and a little bouncy. People use it in everyday talk, more in British English than in stiff, formal writing. You would not use it in a funeral speech or a news report. Though actually, it can sound a tiny bit story-book now; many people just say happily or . Chirpily still paints a clearer picture: not only happy, but light and lively with it.
快活地、輕快地(開朗、帶一點輕巧的勁)
組成chirpy (happy and lively, like a little bird) + -ly (in that way).
同家族的字
- chirpythe describing word this comes from
- chirpinessthe noun for the same happy, lively quality
- chirpthe short bird sound that gave chirpy its feeling
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。
chirpilyadv
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In a chirpy way.
- From the Malay wayang came ‘Rukun Islam’, sung chirpily by a hoarse female voice.
- Her father's sad passing makes such memories deeply poignant, but Meadows relays them too chirpily for me to embarrass myself by getting moist-eyed.
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。