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Infuriatingly tells you how something happens: in a way that makes you very angry, or at least very . It often sits in front of an adjective: infuriatingly slow, infuriatingly calm, infuriatingly late. The slow wifi is not just slow; the slowness itself gets under your skin. You can also put it with a whole clause: Infuriatingly, the shop had closed one minute early. The tone is complaining, but not slang — you can use it in a story or a complaint to a friend. Though actually, like , it is used more loosely than the old “fury” in the middle of the word. Infuriatingly calm does not mean the person is in a rage; it means their calm is what is driving you up the wall.
氣死人地;令人火大地
組成infuriating + -ly (turns the adjective into an adverb).
同家族的字
- infuriatingthe adjective this adverb is built from
- infuriatethe verb 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。
infuriatinglyadv
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In an infuriating manner.
- And they're often infuriatingly well-crafted buzzwords – combining impact with audacious disingenuousness.
- The Cambrian Line links Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury and Pwllheli, forking at Dovey Junction. Its geography is both a blessing and a headache: the scenery is glorious, but the line speed (at times) infuriatingly slow.
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。