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Inconceivably means “in a way that is too strange or unusual to be thought real or possible.” It often sits in front of another word to push the idea to an extreme: inconceivably large, inconceivably cruel, inconceivably lucky. Though actually, in everyday talk people sometimes use it as a heavy “very,” the way they use “incredibly.” Careful speakers keep it for things the mind really cannot picture. It is the adverb from , so it tells you how something is, not what the thing is called.
難以置信地;不可思議地
組成From inconceivable + -ly (in that way).
同家族的字
- inconceivablethe adjective this adverb comes from
- conceivableable to be thought of as possible
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。
inconceivablyadv
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In an inconceivable manner, in a way not believable or understandable.
- Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.
- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
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。