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If you move gingerly, or touch something gingerly, you do it slowly and with care, because you think it might hurt, break, or be dangerous.
If you move gingerly如果你gingerly地移動, or者 touch something gingerly碰觸某個東西, you do it slowly and with care你做得又慢又小心, because因為 you think it might hurt, break, or be dangerous你覺得它可能會弄傷人、弄壞或有危險.
You test the ice with one foot. You pick up a hot plate as if it might still burn. You sit down gingerly after a fall.
You你 test the ice with one foot用一隻腳先試探冰面. You你 pick up a hot plate as if it might still burn拿起一個燙盤子時，好像它還會燙人一樣. You你 sit down gingerly after a fall跌倒之後gingerly地坐下.
The feeling is caution mixed with a little fear, not ceremony.
The feeling這種感覺 is caution mixed with a little fear是小心加上一點點害怕, not graceful ceremony而不是優雅的儀式感.
It is a normal, slightly colourful word — fine in speech and in writing. You will meet it as an adverb most of the time (walk gingerly). The adjective exists too (a gingerly step), and that adjective actually came from the adverb, probably because -ly also makes .
It它 is a normal, slightly colourful word是個普通、帶點生動色彩的詞 — fine in speech and in writing用在說話和寫作裡都可以. You你 will meet it as an adverb most of the time大多時候會看到它當副詞用 (walk gingerly)（gingerly地走）. The adjective形容詞形式 exists too也是有的 (a gingerly step)（一個gingerly的腳步）, and而 that adjective actually came from the adverb這個形容詞其實是從副詞來的, probably because -ly also makes adjectives可能是因為-ly也可以構成形容詞.
It has nothing to do with the spice ginger, even though it looks as if it should.
It它 has nothing to do with the spice ginger跟辛香料ginger（薑）一點關係都沒有, even though即使 it looks as if it should看起來好像應該有關係.
組成The second piece is -ly. The first piece may be Anglo-Norman gençur or Old French gençor / gensor, comparative forms of gent (“beautiful, noble, pleasant, courteous”). That is only a maybe: those French forms disappear for a few centuries before gingerly shows up, so scholars are not sure the line is real. The adjective is derived from the adverb.
原始詞典資料4 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。
gingerlyadv/ˈdʒɪn(d)ʒəli/
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In a cautious and delicate manner; (very) carefully or cautiously.
- He placed the glass jar gingerly on the concrete step.
- In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]
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obsoleteChiefly of dancing or walking: done with small, dainty steps; daintily; also, with excessive delicacy; affectedly, mincingly.
- Oh! ſhe lookes ſo ſugredly, ſo ſimpringly, ſo gingerly, ſo amarouſly, ſo amiably. […] [She] is ſuch an intycing ſhee-vvitch, carrying the charmes of your Ievvels about her. Oh!
gingerlyadj/ˈdʒɪn(d)ʒəli/
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Often of movements: very careful, cautious, or delicate.
- We can honestly commend the Atlantic Monthly as the most able and spirited of American periodicals, at the present time, and we like it, moreover, because it dares have opinions and to express them in unmistakable terms, on subjects which when referred to at all, by most of the current magazines, are mentioned in the gingerliest namby-pamby style of common place neutrality.
- But, ther's somethin' in the very look and voice of Jeems Strebling, even in his gingerly walk, that riles all the black drop in me.
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obsoleteOften of a person or the way they move: dainty, delicate; also, excessively delicate; affected, mincing.
- All yᵉ rest of my trimmest, tricksiest, gingerliest ioyes, / But very tædious and most odious toyes?
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。