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In British English this is often just a or old-fashioned way to say very. I’m frightfully sorry means I’m very sorry; that’s frightfully kind means that’s very kind. It has almost nothing to do with being scared any more. Older speakers, and people putting on a voice, use it more; younger people may use it for fun, as if they were in an old film. Americans hardly say it this way. Though actually, if you took the word apart you would expect “in a frightful way,” and that older, more literal sense does still exist — but the everyday British use is simply very.
非常、極為(英式,偏老派或裝腔;跟「害怕」幾乎無關)
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。
frightfullyadv/ˈfɹaɪtfəli/
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In a frightful manner.
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datedVery, extremely.
- It all went frightfully quickly.
- Millicent married Creake after a very short engagement. It was a frightfully subdued wedding—more like a funeral to me.
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。