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Mournfully is the adverb: in a very sad way, with that heavy, grieving feeling. You add -ly to mournful. So a person looks mournful (that is the face), but they look mournfully at the empty chair (that is the way they look). A dog may howl mournfully. A voice may say goodbye mournfully. Same weight as mournful — loss, not a small bad day. You can stretch it the same way as mournful, for a sad look that is not really about death. It is a little ; in speech people often just say sadly.
哀傷地、悲淒地
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。
mournfullyadv/ˈmɔɹnfəli/
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In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
- 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."
- The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.
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。