1. 1r/ˈlʌkəli/幸好;幸虧

    Used to say that it is a good thing something happened or was done, because without it the situation would have been unpleasant or difficult.

    文法句子副詞:修飾整句話。

    「luckily」是一個管整句話的副詞,通常放在句首加逗號,或接在 but 後面。它說的不是「某人運氣好」,而是「還好有這件事,不然就麻煩了」——所以每個 luckily 的句子背後,都藏著一個沒有發生的壞結果。可以想成:luck(沒計畫到的好事)長出 lucky(幸運的),再加 -ly 之後它就跳出動詞的位置,替整句話講話,變成說話的人對事情結果的評語。fortunately 意思幾乎一樣,只是比較正式、比較常出現在文章裡。

    示範例句 · Example

    It rained hard all morning, but luckily the school trip was in the afternoon.

    中文翻譯整個早上雨下得很大,但幸好校外教學是在下午。

    常見搭配

    • luckily for somebody

      對某人來說很幸運的是…

      used to say who was saved from trouble by the good thing that happened

      Luckily for me, the little shop by the station was still open.

    • but luckily ...

      但幸好…

      used after describing a problem, to introduce the thing that saved it

      The bus was full, but luckily two seats were free at the back.

    • luckily, no one was hurt

      幸好沒有人受傷

      used to say that a small accident happened but nobody was harmed

      A shelf fell down in the classroom, but luckily no one was hurt.

    • luckily ... in time

      幸好…及時

      used to say that something good happened before it was too late

      Luckily, Dad found my lost water bottle in time for the trip.

    • luckily it worked out

      幸好最後結果還不錯

      used to say that a difficult situation ended well

      Our first plan didn't work, but luckily it worked out in the end.

    意思相反

    unluckilyunfortunatelysadlyregrettably

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From lucky + -ly.

就是 lucky 加上副詞字尾 -ly。

Wiktionary

You can think of it as the speaker back and pointing at one thing that saved the situation. It doesn't describe how someone did something — it comments on the whole story: things could easily have gone badly, and this one detail is why they didn't.

可以想成說話的人往後退一步,指著某一件事說「還好有它」。它不是在形容動作怎麼做,而是在替整件事下註腳:事情本來很可能會很糟,而就是這個細節讓它沒有變糟。

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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。

luckilyadv/ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/

  • 1

    In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately.

    • They luckily escaped injury.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。