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If you do something openly, you do not hide your feelings, your opinions, or the facts. Other people can see and hear what is really going on. You may speak openly, cry openly, admit a mistake openly, or live openly as who you are. It can mean “not in secret / in public” and also “frankly, without covering the feeling.” Though actually, it has nothing to do with an open door or a shop that is open, and it is not the same as being open-minded. There is a public, unhidden quality to it. Fine in news and essays, and ordinary in speech too.
公開地;坦率地
組成From Middle English openli, from Old English openlīċe. By surface analysis, open + -ly.
同家族的字
- openthe adjective this adverb is built from
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。
openlyadv/ˈoʊpənli/
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In an open manner; visibly.
- Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer;
- The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
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。