以人的方式
最貼著字面的一支：human + -ly，直接描述「做起來像人」或「站在人的角度判斷」。
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In the way a person does something: moving, sounding or judging the way a human being does, with the limits that come with being human.
以人的方式
核心畫面
You can picture 'humanly' as a line drawn around what a person is. Inside the line is what a human being can do, feel and judge; outside it is beyond us. Every use of the word points at that line — either by saying something was done in the way a person does it, or by saying it was pushed right up to the edge.
humanly 可以想成：在「人」的四周畫一條線。線裡面，是人做得到、感覺得到、判斷得出來的事；線外面，就不是人力所…更多收起
humanly 可以想成：在「人」的四周畫一條線。線裡面，是人做得到、感覺得到、判斷得出來的事；線外面，就不是人力所及了。這個字的作用，就是把注意力拉到那條線上。所以它最常跟 possible 一起出現——as far as humanly possible，意思就是「一路推到線的邊邊」。From the word’s history
Formed from human plus the adverb ending -ly. In Middle English it was the same word as today's 'humanely', because 'human' and 'humane' had not yet split apart.
humanly 是 human 加上副詞字尾 -ly 造出來的。資料提到在中古英語裡，它和今天的 humanely 本來是同一個字，因為那時 human 和 humane 還沒分家。後來兩邊才分工：humanly 留下「以人的方式」，humanely 拿走「不讓對方受苦地」。
Wiktionary entry 'humanly' (adv), etymology_text supplied in this packet — source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1458868835:5204
Two branches
人力的極限
同一條線，換成「上限」來用：不再描述動作像不像人，而是量出「人最多只能到這裡」。這一支幾乎都黏著 possible 出現。
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Used with 'possible' to stress that something is being pushed to the limit of what a person can do — as far, as fast, as much or as early as any person could manage.
人所能及地