- 1相對地、比較起來
Comparatively means “when you set it next to something else,” or next to how it used to be. A comparatively small apartment is still an apartment; you are only saying it looks small beside others, or beside what you expected. It is a very common word, a little more careful than “pretty” or “quite.” People stretch it: “comparatively speaking” is a way to a claim — this is not perfect, but next to the rest… Though actually it does not name a fair, equal match (that is ); it only places one thing on a scale against another. Teachers like it because it sounds measured; students sometimes it as a fancy “quite.”
組成From comparative + -ly. comparative comes from Latin via French, about comparing; -ly makes the adverb “when compared.”
同家族的字
- comparativethe adjective this adverb comes from
- comparethe verb at the root
- comparisonthe noun for setting things side by side
- comparablynearby adverb: “to a similar degree,” not “relatively”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
comparativelyadv/kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪvli/
- 1
In a comparative manner.
- And yet I suppose that my life has been, comparatively speaking, a happy one.
- Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
- 2
When compared to other entities.
- Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground[.]
- In freewayless areas like the Northwest, traffic jams are comparatively fewer – encouraged by the lack of a highway, more people have been riding buses.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。