- 1
If someone or something does a thing dependably, they do it in a way you can trust, again and again. The train runs dependably. She dependably sends the report on Friday. It is the adverb beside , so it tells you how the action happens. It is a little formal; many people just say “always” or “you can count on it.” Though actually, you can use it with a smile when the thing you can “trust” is a small fault: he dependably forgets his keys. That is still the same meaning — you know what will happen.
可靠地
組成From dependable + -ly. Dependable means “you can trust it”; -ly turns the adjective into an adverb: in a dependable way. English -ly comes from Middle English -ly.
同家族的字
- dependablethe adjective this adverb is built from
- dependthe verb at the root
- dependabilitythe noun for the same idea
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。
dependablyadv
- 1
In a dependable manner.
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。