核心畫面
Think of it as 'at the tipping point': things have been pushed into a narrow place where they could still go either way, and what happens right here decides the rest. One side of the word is danger at that point, the other side is importance at that point. The 'criticizing' uses run on a different track — not a tipping point, but someone standing beside a thing, sorting good from bad.
可以想成「走到臨界點」的畫面：事情被逼到一個很窄的關口，往好往壞都還沒定，而接下來會怎樣就卡在這裡。這個副詞有兩大用…更多收起
可以想成「走到臨界點」的畫面：事情被逼到一個很窄的關口，往好往壞都還沒定，而接下來會怎樣就卡在這裡。這個副詞有兩大用法從這裡拉出去——一邊是情況危險到令人屏息，一邊是某件事重要到整局都押在它身上。至於「批評地、批判地」那一組，走的是另一條線：不是關口，而是有人在旁邊把東西翻來翻去、分好壞。原始詞典資料5 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。
criticallyadv/ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/
- 1
In a critical manner; with, or in terms of, criticism.
- I looked critically at the frayed carpet of the hotel room.
- Girard critically examines Nietzsche's central contention that Christianity is a religion of sublimated vengeance or ressentiment and contents that although Nietzsche is half right about Christians he remains dangerously naive about violence itself.
- 2
In terms of critique, review, of or by critics
- a critically applauded film
- 3
With close discernment; accurately; exactly.
- Thus difficult it is to underſtand the purity of Engliſh, and critically to diſcern not only good Writers from bad, and a proper ſtile from a corrupt, but alſo to diſtinguiſh that which is pure in a good Author, from that which is vicious and corrupt in him.
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At a crisis or critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence.
- a fortification critically situated
- Coming critically the night before the session.
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Requiring immediate attention; likely to cause a collapse.
- critically ill
- critically injured
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。