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Heartbreakingly is the adverb. It tells you how something happens, or how someone or something seems, in a way that makes you extremely sad or disappointed. It usually leans on an adjective or a verb: heartbreakingly sad, heartbreakingly honest, they came heartbreakingly close, she smiled heartbreakingly. Heartbreakingly close is a set pattern in sport and in news: you almost won, and the almost is the wound. Heartbreakingly beautiful is a stretch people like — the thing is so beautiful it almost hurts — and that use is more about intensity than about grief. The word is fairly literary. You will meet it in reviews, headlines, and careful speech more than in the playground. Though actually, speakers also use it lightly, the same way they stretch , so the temperature is not always as high as the pieces suggest. You would not normally say I am heartbreakingly; the adverb wants something to modify.
令人心碎地(修飾後面的形容詞或動詞,如 heartbreakingly close)
組成heartbreaking + -ly. Heartbreaking itself is heart + breaking; -ly turns the adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- heartbreakingthe adjective this adverb is built from
- heartbreakthe noun at the root
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。
heartbreakinglyadv
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In a heartbreaking manner
- It was a chilly progress and heartbreakingly slow.
- Cooper’s death was heartbreakingly familiar: 31 children died of vehicular heatstroke in the United States in 2014, the year the boy died, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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。