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When you do something immoderately, you go past what is reasonable and sensible — too much, and not in a small way. Someone may eat immoderately, drink immoderately, or spend immoderately: the amount is , not just large. The word is rather formal, a little old-fashioned. In ordinary talk people usually say “too much” or “way too much.” It does not mean “very.” It always carries the idea that the limit of good sense has been crossed.
過度地；無節制地
組成From Middle English immoderatliche, inmoderately; immoderate (too much; not within sensible limits) + -ly (makes an adverb).
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- immoderatethe adjective this adverb comes from
- moderatethe opposite idea — within sensible limits
- moderatelythe opposite adverb — not too much
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immoderatelyadv
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In an immoderate manner.
- 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13, From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.
- by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination[…]
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