- 1
When someone sits, walks, or talks companionably, they are with you in a warm, easy way — not stiff, not showing off, just pleasant to have beside you. It is an adverb: it tells you how a person is being in that moment, not what they are. You meet it more in stories and careful writing than in everyday chat; a friend would more often say “we had a nice time together” than “we sat companionably.” It likes quiet shared things: sitting on a bench, eating without hurry, reading in the same room. Though actually it does not mean the other person is your partner or official companion; it only paints the feeling of being easy company.
融洽地、親切地(相處)
組成From companionable + -ly. companionable = pleasant to be with as a companion; -ly turns that adjective into an adverb (how someone is with you).
同家族的字
- companionablethe adjective this adverb is built from
- companionthe person you are with
- companionshipthe noun for that warm togetherness
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。
companionablyadv
- 1
In a companionable manner; agreeably, sociably.
- He had been sitting with her, it appeared, most companionably at home, till her usual hour of exercise — Jane Austen, Emma Volume 2, Chapter 6.
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。