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Gruffly tells you how someone speaks: in a rough, short, unfriendly-sounding voice. “He answered gruffly” means the words came out low and blunt, not warm. As with gruff, this often describes the surface, not the heart. A teacher might say gruffly “Sit down” and still care about the class. You will see it in stories and reported speech more than in student essays.
粗聲粗氣地
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。
grufflyadv
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In a gruff manner.
- He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school.
- Bradly squatted on the flat rock to wash his legs, saying gruffly to Podson, "Better wash that dam' mud off; it sticks like hell when it's dry."
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。