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In a way that wears your patience out. Unlike , this one does not describe the person — it describes the thing, and it very often sits right in front of a describing word to push it further: exasperatingly slow, exasperatingly vague, exasperatingly polite. That is its most common job, and it carries a small complaint inside it. "The queue was exasperatingly slow" says both that it was slow and that you were losing patience standing in it. It can also describe how something is done — "He answered exasperatingly calmly, as if nothing had happened" — where the calm itself is the thing making you crazy. It is a formal, written-feeling word; in conversation people reach for "unbelievably slow" or " slow" instead.
令人抓狂地、氣死人地(多半放在形容詞前,例如「慢得讓人抓狂」)
組成exasperating + -ly. Two endings stacked on one verb: -ing makes it the cause of the feeling, -ly makes it a how-word.
同家族的字
- exasperatingthe adjective directly underneath it
- exasperatedlythe mirror word, for the person who feels it instead
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。
exasperatinglyadv
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In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
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。