核心畫面

One way to hold `knowingly` is to picture the knowledge already sitting inside the person before the action starts. Know + -ing + -ly: doing it with `I know` switched on. From there the word splits by where that knowing is aimed. Aim it outward, at another person's face, and it becomes a look that says I know. Keep it inward, as the facts you had in hand, and it becomes the word rules use to separate a choice from an accident.

knowingly 可以想成:動作發生之前,「知道」已經先坐在這個人心裡了。拆開來看是 know(知道)+ -ing更多收起knowingly 可以想成:動作發生之前,「知道」已經先坐在這個人心裡了。拆開來看是 know(知道)+ -ing + -ly,也就是「帶著『我知道』去做一件事」。接下來的分岔,看這份「知道」朝哪裡去。朝外,給另一個人看,它就變成一個表情:那個笑、那個眼神在說「我知道喔」。朝內,留在自己手上,它就變成規則和法律最需要的那把尺:分開「故意」和「不小心」。同一個字,兩種去向,動詞會告訴你是哪一種。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records it from Middle English knawyngly, knowyngly, and analyses the modern form as knowing + -ly.

維基詞典記錄它來自中古英文的 knawyngly、knowyngly,並把現代形式分析成 knowing 加 -ly。這條線索有用的地方在於:整個字的重量從一開始就放在「知道」上,而不是放在「做」上。

Wiktionary entry `knowingly` (evidence packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1227700179:9507)

From the picture

知道,而且讓人看見

同一份「我知道」被送到臉上,給另一個人接收。話沒有說出口,表情代替了話。

r · C2

In a way that shows you know something that has not been said out loud — a secret, a shared joke, or something a little embarrassing.

會意地

Also in this word

r · C2

On purpose and with full awareness — you know what you are doing and what it will cause, so it is not a mistake. It is common in rules, promises and legal wording, especially after `never`.

明知而故意地