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Credibly is the adverb from credible: in a way people can believe, or to a degree that is . If a paper can credibly claim something, the claim is made in a way that holds up. If someone is credibly linked to a crime, there is enough serious reason to take the link seriously — it is not just gossip. It modifies a verb or a whole claim: speak credibly, report credibly, credibly threaten. It is a formal, news-and-essay word. In speech people more often say “in a way,” or they just use credible as an adjective.
可信地；可靠地（修飾動詞：credibly claim = 有憑據地聲稱）
組成credible + -ly（把「可信的」變成「以可信的方式」）
同家族的字
- crediblethe adjective this adverb is built from
- credibilitythe noun: how believable something is
原始詞典資料2 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。
crediblyadv/ˈkɹɛdɪbli/
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In a credible manner; believably.
- A suitor can credibly signal his love for a woman by offering her an expensive and extravagant gift.
- He was in a position to commit to a credibly conservative monetary policy.
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Used to report the speaker's assessment of the credibility of a reported statement
- He [Mayor Koch] says he better understands the limits of government; less credibly, he says he has mellowed.
- His deep-set eyes and expression of general despair lend him a look of utter dissolution—very credibly, he is dying from sexual desire.
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。