核心畫面

Picture a small tag you can pin onto a fact: everyone already knows this one. The writer pins it on so the reader does not have to be told the whole story — one word does the work of 'you have heard this before'. The tag says nothing about whether the fact is good or ; it only says it has travelled.

可以想成一張小標籤,你把它別在一件事情上,上面寫著「這件事大家都知道」。寫文章的人別上這張標籤,讀者就不必再被講一次更多收起可以想成一張小標籤,你把它別在一件事情上,上面寫著「這件事大家都知道」。寫文章的人別上這張標籤,讀者就不必再被講一次整個故事。一個字就完成了「你應該聽過」這件事。這張標籤不管那件事是光榮還是糗,它只說:這件事已經傳開了。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records famously as famous + -ly — 'in a famous way' — which is still exactly what the tag does.

Wiktionary 記的來源就是 famous + -ly,字面是「用有名的方式」。今天這個字做的還是同一件事:替一件事貼上「有名」的標籤。

Wiktionary entry 'famously' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1328815177:5820), etymology_text: 'From famous + -ly.'

Two branches

貼上「大家都知道」的標籤

這就是標籤本身的用法,也是你今天最常遇到的一支。

r · B2

In a way that a lot of people know about. You put it next to what someone said or did to show that this is the well-known part, or next to a quality to show that the person or place is known for it.

眾所周知地

只活在 get on/along famously 裡的「好得不得了」

這個意思不能拆開看:famously 單獨用不會等於「很好」。要說它和標籤有什麼關係,只能當成一個記憶的鉤子——好到值得被傳出去——而不是一條歷史的線。

r · B2

If two people get on famously, or get along famously, they like each other and their relationship works very well.

處得很好