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Doing something in a very fast, worried, out-of-control way because you're scared or in a hurry, like searching frantically for your keys because you're going to be late, or someone frantically for help. It shows panic, not calm, careful action.
慌張地、拼命地
組成frantic (wild with worry or fear) + ally (turns it into a word telling you HOW something is done)
同家族的字
- franticfrantically is frantic + ally
原始詞典資料2 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。
franticallyadv/ˈfɹæn.tɪk.li/
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In a frantic manner.
- He searched frantically for his passport before the flight.
- Amid a cacophony of demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the basic facts of what happened, and that includes launching a Nixonian campaign of intimidation and retribution against Democratic lawmakers who have for months been sounding the alarm.
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archaicslangExtremely; terribly.
- "Oh yes; come in, Mr Carrados," she exclaimed graciously. "We are not quite strangers, you know. You found out something for Aunt Pigs; I forget what, but she was most frantically impressed."
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。