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Neighbourly means behaving like a good neighbour: friendly, helpful, and ready to look after the people who live next to you. Taking in a parcel, watching someone's cat, or checking on the older person next door are neighbourly things. It is a warm, everyday word, a little old-fashioned in a kind way, and more at home in British English — Americans usually write neighborly. People also stretch it to countries: neighbourly relations means two countries that sit next to each other trying to get along and help, not fight. Though actually, it is about the spirit of being next-door, not only the house next door. You would not use it for a deep friendship; it is the lighter, decent kindness of people who share a street — or a border.
睦鄰的、像好鄰居的
組成neighbour (the person who lives next to you) + -ly (makes an adjective: 'in the manner of'). The -ly piece goes back through Middle English to Old English -līċ.
同家族的字
- neighbourthe noun this adjective is built from
- neighbourhoodsame neighbour root: the streets where those people live
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。
neighbourlyadj/ˈneɪbɚˌli/
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Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- She's so neighbourly that she always holds a welcoming party for new residents.
- I got the impression you were looking for something, and it crossed my mind to ask you what that might be. Just being friendly, sir, just being neighbourly.
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。