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/ˈdræstɪkli/
in a very big and sudden way; so that something changes a lot, quickly.
大幅地；劇烈地
核心畫面
You can picture a change you see at a glance and did not get time to brace for: the line on the chart does not slope down, it drops. Drastically is the word for a change with that much force behind it — big, fast, and leaving things clearly different from before.
可以想成一個一眼就看得出來的變化：圖表上的線不是慢慢斜下去，而是直接掉下來，而且來得又快又猛，讓人來不及有心理準備。…更多收起
可以想成一個一眼就看得出來的變化：圖表上的線不是慢慢斜下去，而是直接掉下來，而且來得又快又猛，讓人來不及有心理準備。drastically 描述的就是這種帶著力道的改變——幅度大、速度快，事後跟事前明顯是兩回事。From the word’s history
From Greek drastikos 'effective, efficacious; active, violent', from drao 'to do, act, perform'. In the 1690s it described medicines that acted with force; the modern 'extreme, severe' sense is recorded from 1808. The feeling that something is really acting on the thing is still inside the word.
來自希臘文 drastikos「有效的、強力的」，字根是動詞 drao「做、行動」。1690 年代它先用來形容藥效很猛的藥，到 1808 年才變成「極端的、劇烈的」。那種「真的有東西在用力作用」的感覺一直留在字裡，所以 drastically 講的從來不只是「多」，而是「用力到看得出來」。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'drastic'
原始詞典資料2 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。
drasticallyadv
- 1
To a drastic degree.
- drastically reduced prices
- This recession has been drastically different.
- 2
In a drastic manner.
- Lisa always wore shorts and a T-shirt, which clashed drastically with her brother's thick winter coat.
- It explains why a Democratic Congress foisted Prohibition on the country and a Republican Congress drastically legislated to enforce it, when ordinarily the two parties are only too anxious for any political stick to beat each other with.
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。