核心畫面

Picture a circle drawn on the map around the spot you are standing on. `Locally` means inside that circle and no further. That boundary is the whole word: the vegetables were grown inside it (`grown locally`), the phone call never crossed it (`call locally`), the heavy rain fell on one patch inside it and nowhere else. The word itself never says how big the circle is — the situation decides that, from one street to a whole county.

可以想成在地圖上,繞著你站的位置畫一個圈。locally 講的就是「圈裡面,不出這個圈」。菜是在圈裡種的(grown更多收起可以想成在地圖上,繞著你站的位置畫一個圈。locally 講的就是「圈裡面,不出這個圈」。菜是在圈裡種的(grown locally)、電話沒有打出這個圈(call locally)、大雨只落在圈裡的某一小塊。這個字本身從來不說圈有多大,圈的大小是由當下的情況決定的——可能只是一條街,也可能是一整個縣市。

One branch

範圍就只有那一小塊

兩個意思用的是同一個圈,差別只在圈畫在哪裡:一個以「你這邊」為中心,一個是散落在大範圍裡的幾小塊。

in the local area · r · A2

In or near the area you are in or talking about, not somewhere further away.

在當地;在本地

原始詞典資料4 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。

locallyadv/ˈləʊkəli/

  • 1

    With respect to place; in place.

    • These things are locally separated.
  • 2

    In or from the local area.

    • We live locally.
    • In this shop we only sell products farmed locally.
  • 3

    medicinesciencesIn a restricted part of the body.

    • To be applied locally
    • Puri et al demonstrated that intravesically administered apaziquone is well tolerated locally and systemically, and it has ablative activity for superficial bladder cancer marker lesions.
  • 4

    mathematical-analysismathematicssciencesWithin a sufficiently small sphere (or circle or interval) around a given point (sometimes, around any point).

    • locally Euclidean

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。