核心畫面

You can think of funny as anything that steps out of the ordinary and makes you react. Sometimes the reaction is a laugh; sometimes it is a raised . Funnily carries that stepping-out across to actions: the way something is done is not the usual way. The fixed phrase 'funnily enough' takes only the half.

可以想成:funny 指的是「跟平常不一樣,讓人反應一下」。有時候那個反應是笑出來,有時候是眉毛挑一下。funnil更多收起可以想成:funny 指的是「跟平常不一樣,讓人反應一下」。有時候那個反應是笑出來,有時候是眉毛挑一下。funnily 把這個「跟平常不一樣」帶到動作上,說的是「做的方式不對勁或很好笑」。而固定說法 funnily enough 只取了挑眉那一半,所以它講的是巧合和意外,跟好笑無關。

From the word’s history

Funnily is funny plus -ly. Funny already ran along two lines in English, the amusing and the strange, and the adverb inherited both.

funnily 是 funny 加上 -ly。funny 在英文裡本來就有「好笑」和「奇怪」兩條線,副詞把兩條都繼承下來了。

Wiktionary etymology tree for funnily (funny + -ly), packet evidence source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:967707386

Two branches

方式副詞:動作怎麼進行

這是這個字最基本的用法,兩條線都還在。

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In a way that makes people laugh, or in a way that is odd and not how it normally goes — which of the two it means depends on the sentence.

好笑地/怪怪地

固定說法:funnily enough

從核心畫面裡只取「奇怪、意外」那一半,凍結成一個三字的固定說法。

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Used before or after something you are about to say, to tell the listener that it is surprising, odd, or a coincidence — not what they would expect.

說也奇怪