- 1剛剛(做好)的、現做/現磨/現採的。菜單上的「現磨咖啡」「現烤麵包」就是這個 freshly。
Just now, and only just now. Freshly is used before a past participle — freshly baked bread, freshly picked strawberries, freshly ground coffee, freshly cut grass, freshly painted walls — to say the thing was done a very short time ago, and to suggest that this is why it is good: the smell, the taste, the colour are all still at their best. That good feeling is built in, which is why shops and menus love it. It is not simply a time word; 'freshly' says 'so recently that you can still tell'. Notice the shape of the phrase. Freshly nearly always sits directly in front of a past participle, and the two together act as one description before a noun. You cannot end a sentence with it — 'the bread was baked freshly' sounds wrong to an English ear; say 'freshly baked' or 'just baked'. Writers do stretch it now and then to non-food things that are new in the same way, as in 'a freshly qualified doctor', but that is less common.
From the word’s history
From Middle English freschely; fresh + -ly.
源自中古英文 freschely,就是 fresh 加 -ly。
組成fresh (new, recent, at its best) + -ly (the ending that makes an adverb out of an adjective). It has been in English since Middle English times in almost this same shape.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
freshlyadv/ˈfɹɛʃli/
- 1
Recently, newly.
- The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.
- Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away.
- 2
In a rude or impertinent manner.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。