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When something is intolerably hot, slow, noisy, painful, or unfair, it has gone past the point where you can still live with it. You are not only unhappy — you cannot accept it, and you may not be able to deal with it either. It is a strong adverb, used of heat, pain, waiting, rules, and other people's behaviour. If a class is intolerably boring, you almost mean you could not sit through it. Writers like it because it is sharper than a plain “very”: it says “too much to bear.” You will hear it more in careful speech and writing than in quick chat, where someone might just say “I can’t stand it.” Though actually, it only fits a bad kind of “too much.” “Intolerably kind” sounds odd, because kindness is not something you cannot accept.
難以忍受地;無法忍受地
組成From intolerable + -ly. Intolerable is in- (“not”) + tolerable (“able to be put up with”). The -ly is the usual English adverb ending, from Old English -līċe.
同家族的字
- intolerablethe adjective this adverb is built from
- toleratethe verb at the root: to put up with something
- intolerantsame in- + tolerate family, used of people who will not accept others
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。
intolerablyadv
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In an intolerable manner; beyond endurance.
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。