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Expeditiously is the adverb: it describes doing something quickly and efficiently, with obstacles cleared. It attaches to a verb — deal with a complaint expeditiously, process an application expeditiously, move expeditiously toward an agreement.
Expeditiously is the adverbexpeditiously是副詞：it describes doing something quickly and efficiently形容把事情做得又快又有效率，with obstacles cleared障礙都排除掉。It attaches to a verb它接在動詞後面——deal with a complaint expeditiously迅速處理客訴、process an application expeditiously迅速處理申請、move expeditiously toward an agreement迅速朝協議推進
Like its adjective, it lives almost entirely in formal, institutional English: legal documents, official correspondence, company statements, government reports. In a contract you will often meet the fixed pair 'promptly and expeditiously', which is lawyers being careful: promptly means you start soon, expeditiously means you keep going and finish without dragging.
Like its adjective跟它的形容詞一樣，it lives almost entirely in formal, institutional English這個字幾乎只出現在正式、機構用的英文裡：legal documents, official correspondence, company statements, government reports法律文件、官方書信、公司聲明、政府報告。In a contract you will often meet the fixed pair 'promptly and expeditiously'在合約裡，你常會看到固定搭配'promptly and expeditiously'，which is lawyers being careful這是律師謹慎的寫法：promptly means you start soonpromptly是說你很快開始，expeditiously means you keep going and finish without draggingexpeditiously是說你會持續進行、不拖拖拉拉地完成
In everyday speech people say 'quickly', 'fast', or 'right away'. If a student uses 'expeditiously' when chatting with friends, it will sound like they swallowed a contract.
In everyday speech在日常口語裡，people say 'quickly', 'fast', or 'right away'大家會說'quickly'、'fast'，或'right away'。If a student uses 'expeditiously' when chatting with friends如果學生跟朋友聊天時用'expeditiously'，it will sound like they swallowed a contract聽起來就像吞了一份合約
組成expeditious（迅速的）+ -ly（把形容詞變成副詞的字尾）。
同家族的字
- expeditiousthe adjective this adverb is built from
- expeditesame Latin expedīre — to speed something up
- expeditionsame root — a trip that gets under way
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。
expeditiouslyadv/ɛks.pəˈdɪʃ.əs.li/
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In an expeditious manner, quickly.
- For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.
- With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.
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。