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Marvellously is the British spelling of an adverb that means “in a way that is extremely good, enjoyable, or impressive.” You add it to a verb or an adjective when something goes far better than ordinary: she sang marvellously; the food was marvellously fresh. It still carries a little of an older feeling of wonder — as if you are looking at something and thinking, “How can that be this good?” — so it sounds a bit warmer and more storybook than a flat “very.” Grown-ups who like tidy, slightly old-fashioned English use it more than teenagers; in everyday American English the same word is usually spelled marvelously, with one l. People also stretch it for emphasis, and sometimes for a joke: “marvellously silly” means very silly, said with a smile, not that the silliness is a beautiful thing. It does not, by itself, tell you whether something is morally good; it tells you the speaker is struck by how well or how strongly something comes off.
極好地、非常精彩地(英式拼法;美式作 marvelously)
組成marvellous (wonderful, impressive) + -ly (turns an adjective into an adverb). From Middle English merveilously.
同家族的字
- marvellousthe adjective this adverb is built from
- marvelthe older noun and verb meaning a wonderful thing, or to feel wonder
原始詞典資料2 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。
marvellouslyadv/ˈmɑːvələsli/
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In a marvellous manner.
- The plan worked marvellously, even better than we had expected.
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To a great or impressive degree; very.
- [N]eyther hys ſeruantes nor hymſelf ſuffered to gone^([sic – meaning go?]) oute, parceiuyng well ſo greate a thyng without his knowledge not begun for noughte, comparyng this maner preſẽ[n]t with this laſt nightes chere, ĩ[n] ſo few houres ſo gret a chaunge marueylouſlye miſliked.
- I groaned with hunger. I had seen a marvellously large penny loaf at a baker's—the largest I could possibly get for the price.
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。