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Motionlessly means “without moving at all” — the adverb form of . It tells you how someone does something, not what they are: he waited motionlessly, she stared motionlessly at the door. The meaning is the same complete stop as . Though actually, real English often prefers the adjective after the verb — he stood — and skips the -ly form. Motionlessly is correct, but a little stiff, the kind of word you meet in writing more than in talk. If you use it, you are not wrong; you just sound like a book.
一動也不動地
組成motionless + -ly (turns the adjective into an adverb: how you do it).
同家族的字
- motionlessthe adjective this adverb is built from
- motionthe movement that is missing
原始詞典資料1 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。
motionlesslyadv
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In a motionless manner; without moving.
- Lying stark, dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale.
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。