- 1
Doubly means "in two ways" or "even more so" — it's used to make something stronger by saying it happens twice as much, or for two reasons. "I was doubly careful" means more careful than usual. "It's doubly important" means it's important for two separate reasons, or just extra important.
加倍地、雙重地
組成double + -ly — turning "double" into an adverb.
同家族的字
- doubleshares the root "double"
原始詞典資料3 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。
doublyadv/ˈdʌb.li/
- 1
In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
- My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
- Losing a teenmover is doubly painful; so Black continues to make moves.
- 2
In two ways
- Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
- 3
obsoletewith duplicity
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。