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Forsooth is an old adverb meaning “truly,” “indeed,” “for certain” — word for word, “for truth.” You will find it in Shakespeare and in writing that wants a medieval costume. The dictionary’s short gloss is “certainly,” and that is the old sincere use: a speaker that something is so. Though actually almost nobody today says it as a straight yes. In modern English it is rare, , and often a little mocking, as if the speaker were raising an in an old cloak: “A hero, forsooth!” So the messy truth is: the meaning is “certainly / truly,” but the feeling is antique, and often sarcastic rather than solemn. It is not a word for the classroom “yes, that’s right.”
誠然、當真(古語「的確如此」;現在多半是扮古或諷刺,不是日常的「當然」)
組成From Old English for sōþ, “for truth, truly.” for (for, by) + sooth (truth). Middle English wrote it forsothe, forsoþe, for sothe.
同家族的字
- sooththe old noun/adjective for truth; this is the second half of forsooth
- soothsayera person who claims to speak sooth — “truth” about what will happen
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。
forsoothadv/fɔɹˈsuθ/
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archaicUsed as an intensifier, often ironic: indeed, really, truthfully.
- Near-synonyms: true that, facts
- A fit man, forsooth, to governe a realme!
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。