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Irreverently describes the way someone speaks or acts when they do not show the usual respect for organisations, customs, beliefs, and so on. He talked irreverently about the old ceremony. The magazine wrote irreverently about famous people. As with irreverent, English speakers often use it without pure anger — it can sound lively, cheeky, even refreshing. It can also sound shocking, depending on who is listening. Put it with a verb.
不敬地、輕慢地
組成irreverent + -ly (“in that way”).
同家族的字
- irreverentthe adjective; add -ly for how someone speaks or acts
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。
irreverentlyadv
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In an irreverent manner.
- He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.
- Elisha […] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently […]
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。