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Ingratiatingly tells you how someone did a thing: they smiled, spoke, or behaved in that too-eager-to-please way. The sits in the word. He laughed ingratiatingly does not mean he laughed because something was funny; it means the laugh was for the other person’s benefit, to be liked. It is not a word you need in everyday chat; it turns up in stories and in slightly formal writing when the writer wants you to notice the act.
討好地、巴結地
組成From ingratiating + -ly.
同家族的字
- ingratiatingthe adjective this adverb is built from
- ingratiatethe 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。
ingratiatinglyadv
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In an ingratiating manner.
- Nabby Adams approached him ingratiatingly.
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。