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Disturbingly is the adverb: it tells you that something happens in a way that worries or upsets you, or to a degree that should worry you. “Disturbingly quiet.” “Disturbingly similar.” “The test was disturbingly easy for some and impossible for others.” Like , it is a little more at home in writing and careful speech.
Disturbingly is the adverbdisturbingly是副詞 it tells you that something happens in a way that worries or upsets you, or to a degree that should worry you它是說某件事發生的方式讓你擔心或不安,或是程度嚴重到應該讓人擔心 "Disturbingly quiet."「Disturbingly quiet.」(安靜得令人不安) "Disturbingly similar."「Disturbingly similar.」(相似得令人不安) "The test was disturbingly easy for some and impossible for others."「The test was disturbingly easy for some and impossible for others.」(這次考試對有些人簡單得詭異,對另一些人卻難到不可能) Like distressingly跟distressingly一樣 it is a little more at home in writing and careful speech它比較常出現在寫作和講究的說話裡
People often use it to flag a fact that is not just odd but wrong-feeling: too common, too easy, too close to a bad pattern. Though actually, it can also simply mean “in a disturbing manner,” about how someone smiled or how a room looked.
People often use it to flag a fact that is not just odd but wrong-feeling大家常用這個字來標出一個不只是奇怪、而是感覺不對勁的事實 too common, too easy, too close to a bad pattern太常見、太容易,或太接近一個不好的模式 Though actually不過其實 it can also simply mean "in a disturbing manner,"它也可以就只是指「令人不安的方式」 about how someone smiled or how a room looked用來說某人笑的樣子,或一個房間看起來的樣子
The lighter verb sense of disturb (“please don’t disturb me”) does not really carry over here. Disturbingly is almost always the “this is worrying” meaning, not “in a bothersome way.”
The lighter verb sense of disturb ("please don't disturb me")disturb這個動詞比較輕的意思(像「please don't disturb me」) does not really carry over here並不太延續到這裡 Disturbingly is almost always the "this is worrying" meaningdisturbingly幾乎都是「這件事讓人擔心」的意思 not "in a bothersome way."而不是「很麻煩的方式」
組成disturbing + -ly (in a disturbing way).
同家族的字
- disturbingthe adjective underneath
- disturbthe verb: to shake someone’s peace
- disturbancethe event or state of broken peace
- disturbedalready shaken
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。
disturbinglyadv
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In a disturbing manner.
- But this morning was different. Disturbingly, because mysteriously, different. No wheels rumbled, no busses roared, no sound of a car of any kind, in fact, was to be heard; no brakes, no horns, not even the clopping of the few rare horses that still occasionally passed; nor, as there should be at such an hour, the composite tramp of work-bound feet.
- “RIP Harambe” turned into a meme that took a disturbingly long time to go away.
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。