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Inexpressibly means “so much that words are not enough.” It is the adverb of inexpressible, and it has the same literary tone. People use it with big feelings: inexpressibly glad, inexpressibly sad. Using it for an ordinary size, price, or mild state would sound strange. In everyday talk, “so… I cannot say” or “too… for words” does the same job in simpler clothes.
難以言喻地、無法形容地(偏文學)
組成inexpressible + -ly. The -ly makes an adverb: in a way too strong to put into words.
同家族的字
- inexpressiblethe adjective; this adverb is inexpressible + -ly
- expressiblethe positive form inside it: able to be put into words
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。
inexpressiblyadv
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In an inexpressible manner.
- To my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds.
- Inexpressibly tired of this anxious intricate search I threw myself down on the soft moss to rest for a while, but the fatigue conquered the fears of the lonely forest, and I cannot now tell how long I dozed.
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。