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Docilely is how you do something when you are being docile: quietly, without a fight, doing as you are asked. A child might sit down docilely. A horse might follow docilely. The -ly just turns the adjective into a word about the way someone acts. It is not a word people say every day; quietly or without a fuss is more natural in speech. When you do meet it, it is often in stories, and it can sound a little cold, as if the writer is watching someone give in.
溫順地;乖乖地
組成docile + -ly: the adjective plus the usual English ending for “in this way.”
同家族的字
- docilethe adverb is simply docile plus -ly
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。
docilelyadv/ˈdɑ.səl.li/
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Submissively or obediently.
- My uncle returns to his mess of papers, dismissing us; and I go docilely back to my sewing.
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。