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For only a very short time — the adverb of 'fleeting'. You use it about actions that happened and were over almost at once: he smiled fleetingly, she glanced fleetingly at the door, the thought crossed her mind fleetingly. Like 'fleeting', it carries the sense that the moment was too short, that it slipped past. It very often appears with verbs of seeing, thinking and feeling — glance, wonder, smile, appear, consider — because those are the actions that come and go in an instant. It is a written, somewhat literary word; in conversation people say 'for a second', 'just for a moment' or 'quickly'. Position is flexible: 'he fleetingly wondered' and 'he wondered fleetingly' are both fine, though the second sounds more natural.
短暫地、一瞬間地(動作一下就過去了)
組成fleeting (lasting a very short time) + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb). So the word is built in two steps: fleet → fleeting → fleetingly.
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。
fleetinglyadv
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in a fleeting manner; transiently
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。