- 1rB2
/ˈnuːli/
used directly before a past participle to say that something happened only a short time ago.
新近;最近才
核心畫面
Picture a wall where the paint is still wet, or a couple still holding the wedding flowers. Newly goes right in front of a past participle and stamps it: this change happened only a moment ago, and it still shows. A newly built house is not just a house — it is a house whose newness you can still see.
可以想成「油漆還沒乾」的那個瞬間。newly 幾乎只站在過去分詞前面(newly built、newly marri…更多收起
可以想成「油漆還沒乾」的那個瞬間。newly 幾乎只站在過去分詞前面(newly built、newly married、newly appointed),替那個動作蓋上一個章:這件事才剛發生,痕跡還在。所以 a newly opened shop 給人的感覺不只是「開了」,而是「剛開,還新著」——時間很近,狀態還沒褪。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。
newlyadv/ˈnjuːli/
- 1
Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.
- She smelled the newly budding flowers.
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
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。