- 1（方言／口語）至少、起碼。正式寫作用 at least。
Leastways means at least. It is an old or dialect way of speaking, heard in some British and American voices, and in stories that want to sound folksy: “I don’t know her, leastways not well.” Students should be able to read it. They should not use it in school essays or formal letters — at least is the usual word. Though actually, some older speakers still say it without thinking it is quaint.
組成least + ways. The -ways ending makes an adverb, as in always.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
leastwaysadv/ˈliːstˌweɪz/
- 1
dialectalat least
- “My advice, or, leastways, I should say, my orders, is,” said the fattest man of the party, “that we 'mediately go home again.”
- […]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so.
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