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When something happens gratifyingly, it happens in a way that pleases you and makes the result feel worth it. You are not saying thank you — that is gratefully. You are saying the thing itself satisfies you. Writers often put it in front of an adjective to mean “to a pleasing degree”: the test was gratifyingly easy; the room was gratifyingly quiet. It is a little formal. In chat a student would more often say I’m so pleased that… or It went really well. It is about how good something feels, not about gifts or money.
令人滿意地、讓人感到很欣慰地(不是「感激地」)
組成gratifying(讓人滿意的)+ -ly(以那種方式)
同家族的字
- gratifythe verb: to please or satisfy someone
- gratifyingthe adjective this adverb is built from
- gratificationthe noun: the pleasure of getting what you wanted
原始詞典資料1 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。
gratifyinglyadv
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In a manner that gratifies.
- The performance was gratifyingly well-attended.
- [T]hey were available at prices his customers considered gratifyingly reasonable.
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。