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Insufferably means ‘in a way that is extremely or unpleasant’. It usually sits in front of an adjective that has gone too far: insufferably proud, insufferably loud, insufferably pleased with themselves. The flavour is the same as insufferable — a bit sharp, a bit grown-up. You are not giving a calm measurement; you are saying the quality has crossed the line where other people can bear it. Though actually, you will hear it more in writing and in careful speech than in playground English. In chat, a student might just say ‘so proud it was ’ — that is the same idea, said more softly.
令人無法忍受地
組成insufferable + -ly.
同家族的字
- insufferablethe adjective this adverb is built from
- sufferthe older ‘bear’ sense still sitting under the word
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。
insufferablyadv
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In an insufferable manner.
- He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.
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。