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Irresponsibly tells you how someone did something: they did it in a careless way, without thinking or worrying about the possible bad results. He acted irresponsibly. She spent the money irresponsibly. It goes with a verb, not in front of a person. The feeling is the same as irresponsibility, only this form paints the action, not the name of the fault. It is a blaming adverb; teachers, news writers, and parents use it when someone should have been careful and was not.
不負責任地
組成irresponsible + -ly (“in that way”), or ir- + responsibly.
同家族的字
- irresponsiblethe adjective; add -ly to talk about how someone acts
- responsiblythe opposite adverb
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。
irresponsiblyadv/ˌɪ.ɹɪˈspɒn.sə.bli/
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In an irresponsible manner; so as to be irresponsible.
- He had frequent fits of melancholy in which he declared that he was neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. His was neither an irresponsibly contemplative nature nor a sturdily practical one, and he was for ever looking in vain for the uses of the things that please and the charm of the things that sustain.
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。