- 1rB2
/ˈɡreɪtli/
very much, or by a large amount — used before a verb or a past participle to make it stronger, as in greatly increased, greatly , or greatly appreciated.
大大地；非常
核心畫面
Think of it as taking the size in 'great' and moving it off the thing and onto the change: not a great amount of something, but a change that happened by a great amount. It sits in front of the verb — greatly increased, greatly , greatly appreciated — and its job is to say the movement was big.
可以想成把 great 的「大」從東西身上移到「變化」身上：不是「很大的一份東西」，而是「變動的幅度很大」。它站在動…更多收起
可以想成把 great 的「大」從東西身上移到「變化」身上：不是「很大的一份東西」，而是「變動的幅度很大」。它站在動詞前面，像替那個動作加上一個放大的手勢——greatly increased 是漲了一大截，greatly improved 是進步了一大段，greatly appreciated 是這份感謝的份量很重。留意它偏書面、正式，出現在報告、致詞、公告裡比日常對話多；朋友之間講話多半會換成 a lot 或 really。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。
greatlyadv/ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/
- 1
To a great extent or degree.
- Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.
- He was more greatly beloved than anyone in living memory.
- 2
archaicNobly; magnanimously.
- His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome.
- But all this our fisher, who was neither a poet, nor a dependent, did not know, so he concluded, that all who were truly great, were truly greatly minded, and noble in soul, as they were exalted by birth, and rich in splendour.
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。