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The adverb of : in a soft, indirect way that avoids saying the hard thing straight out. In real writing it appears in a few very fixed patterns, and knowing them is most of knowing the word. The commonest by far is 'euphemistically called / known as / referred to / described as X': 'a small room euphemistically called a study', 'what is euphemistically known as an enhanced interrogation'. Here the writer is naming the soft label and, at the same time, quietly telling you not to believe it. Another pattern is 'to put it euphemistically', which works like 'to put it mildly' — you flag that your own words are softer than the facts. It can also modify a verb of speaking: 'he spoke euphemistically about the layoffs'. Almost always the adverb carries a small raised . It is a written-and-formal word: you will meet it in newspapers, essays and reports far more than in conversation, where people just say 'they call it X, but really…'
委婉地說、婉轉地稱之為(副詞)。最常見的用法是「被委婉地稱作⋯⋯」,說的人通常暗示這個說法在粉飾真相。
組成euphemistic + -ally. English adds -ally (not just -ly) to adjectives ending in -ic; the -al came in with the Latin -alis ending that these words used to carry. So: basic → basically, tragic → tragically, euphemistic → euphemistically.
同家族的字
- euphemisticthe adjective this adverb comes from
- euphemismthe noun at the root of both
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。
euphemisticallyadv
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In a euphemistic manner.
- Sex was the primary ingredient of the gatherings, which were euphemistically called "free house parties".
- Today’s vast Swedish pornography industry got its start when the Vikings created what they euphemistically referred to as “Icelandic Sagas,” which were actually torrid porn carved on large rocks, or Runes.
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。