守住一個人:忠誠
這一組最貼近核心畫面:你守的位置旁邊站著一個人,或放著一個你給出去的承諾。
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In a way that shows you stay loyal to a person, a group, or a promise, and keep doing what you said you would do.
忠誠地
You can think of faithfully as someone standing exactly where they said they would stand, and still being there when you come back much later. What they hold on to changes from use to use: a person, a habit, or the exact shape of an original. The picture underneath stays the same one — nothing drifted, nothing was swapped out.
Wiktionary records faithfully as Middle English feithfulli, that is faithful plus -ly, built on faith. Keeping faith with something is the idea that still sits under every modern use.
Wiktionary 記錄 faithfully 來自中古英語 feithfulli,也就是 faithful 加上 -ly,字根是 faith(信)。今天不管守的是一個人、一個習慣,還是原作的樣子,底下都是同一件事:守住那份信。這是概念上的連結,說明它今天的用法為什麼能收在一起。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1025563559:8807): From Middle English feithfulli, equivalent to faithful + -ly.
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守住一個人:忠誠
這一組最貼近核心畫面:你守的位置旁邊站著一個人,或放著一個你給出去的承諾。
r · B2
In a way that shows you stay loyal to a person, a group, or a promise, and keep doing what you said you would do.
忠誠地
守住一個習慣:一次也不漏
把核心畫面裡守著的對象從人換成一件每天要做的事,就長出這個用法。
r · B2
In a way that shows you do the same thing again and again, at the set time or in the set way, and hardly ever miss it.
固定不間斷地
守住原本的樣子:照原樣重現
這一次守的不是人也不是習慣,而是一份原稿、一段聲音、一本書本來的模樣。
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In a way that copies, reports, or performs something exactly as the original is, changing nothing and leaving nothing out.
忠實還原地