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If you say something irrelevantly, you say it in a way that does not relate to what is going on, so it does not help and is not important for that moment. It often describes a remark that comes in from the side: she added, irrelevantly, that the cat was hungry. The describing word irrelevant is much more common; this -ly form is a bit and shows up in stories and reports. Though actually, people sometimes call a comment irrelevantly when they only mean it was badly timed, not that it had nothing to do with the topic.
不相關地、無關緊要地
組成irrelevant (not related, not useful here) + -ly (in that way). From irrelevant + -ly.
同家族的字
- irrelevantthe describing word this adverb comes from
- relevantthe yes-form: useful and related to the situation
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。
irrelevantlyadv
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In an irrelevant manner.
- “Not yet,” replied Jane, and then, quite irrelevantly, “I wish England were a million miles from here.”
- 'Our population would be the same, and our world would still have been dying of its own waste heat!' Irrelevantly, Teela said, 'I wish we could see out.'
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。