- 1冷幽默地、一本正經地（開玩笑）
When you say something dryly, the joke is in the words, but your face and voice stay completely serious — as if you were only stating a fact. You do not laugh, you do not smile, and you do not add “I’m only kidding.” The listener has to notice the humour for themselves. People also talk about a dry sense of humour: funny, but with no warmth on the surface. It is especially common in British English, and it can sound clever, calm, or a little sharp. You might dryly agree, dryly refuse, or dryly point out that a “short meeting” has already lasted two hours. Though actually, the voice often sounds flat; the point is the hidden joke, not that you are bored or .
組成From dry + -ly. Dry is the old word for “not wet,” later used for humour that feels “not wet” — no extra feeling on the face. -ly is the usual English ending that makes an adverb (how you say it); it comes from Old English -līċe.
同家族的字
- drythe adjective this comes from; dry humour is the same idea
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
drylyadv/ˈdɹaɪ.li/
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In a dry manner.
- “Are you going?” said Mr. Chester, rising with a graceful indolence. “Let me light you down the stairs.” “Pray keep your seat,” returned the other dryly, “I know the way.” So, waving his hand slightly, and putting on his hat as he turned upon his heel, he went clanking out as he had come, shut the door behind him, and tramped down the echoing stairs. “Pah! A very coarse animal, indeed!” said Mr. Chester, composing himself in the easy chair again. “A rough brute. Quite a human badger!”
- The company were convulsed with laughter, all except the host himself, who dryly remarked: ‘Very amusing, Mr. Robert, very amusing, truly; ye're a clever lad, very clever; but just let me tell you, […]’
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