核心畫面
One way to hold it: someone doing a thing with the good feeling showing — humming while they tidy up, smiling as they hand something over. From there the word can step outside the action and colour the whole sentence: not 'she did it gladly' but 'I'm glad it turned out this way'.
可以想成一個人做事時臉上、動作上都帶著高興：邊哼歌邊收拾、笑著把東西遞過去。這個字原本描述的是「做這件事的人心情好」…更多收起
可以想成一個人做事時臉上、動作上都帶著高興：邊哼歌邊收拾、笑著把東西遞過去。這個字原本描述的是「做這件事的人心情好」。而從這裡再往外走一步，說話的人也可以把這份高興放在整句話前面——不是誰做得開心，而是「事情變成這樣，我鬆了一口氣」。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。
happilyadv/ˈhæp.ɪ.li/
- 1
In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
- This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.
- And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.
- 2
By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
- Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.
- 3
With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
- I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
- 4
archaicBy chance; perhaps.
- And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?
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。