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Deplorably is the adverb: in a deplorable way, or to a deplorable degree. Someone can behave deplorably. A team can play deplorably. A room can be deplorably dirty — here it means “so badly that it shocks you”. It is formal and rather heavy, like the adjective. Though actually, before an adjective it often just intensifies (“deplorably late”, “deplorably ignorant”), which is a little looser than “in a shocking manner”, but still stronger than “very”. Everyday speech prefers “terribly”, “awfully”, or “really badly”.
糟透地、可恥地(正式;可修飾動詞,也可當「糟到令人震驚」的強調)
組成From deplorable + -ly. The usual English way of turning an adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- deplorablethe adjective this adverb is built from
- deplorethe verb at the root
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。
deplorablyadv
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in a deplorable manner
- As it is, the miner is one of the most overworked and deplorably underpaid men in the country. […] I know very well that if your supply of coal depended on my walking several miles to a pithead, descending in a cage for half a mile, walking again to the dwindling tunnel where I had to work, then slogging away for about seven hours in that hell, all for something like two pounds a week, your grates would be empty.
- But, setting this view aside, dishonorable would it be in the South were she willing to abandon to shame the memory of brave men who with signal personal disinterestedness warred in her behalf, though from motives, as we believe, so deplorably astray.
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。