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Perfunctorily is the adverb: doing something quickly and without care or interest, only because it is expected. The doing is real — the person does not skip it — but the attention is missing. A guard glances perfunctorily at your bag and you through. A doctor nods perfunctorily while looking at the screen. Someone kisses their partner perfunctorily on the way out the door. The word almost always carries mild criticism from the person watching, and the criticism is specific: the form was there, the heart was not. It is a formal, written adverb, common in reports, reviews, and novels, and it usually comes right after the verb it describes. In speech people say 'he barely looked', 'she just went through the motions', or in Taiwan you would recognise it instantly as 敷衍. It does not mean 'badly' or 'lazily' — a perfunctory action can be technically correct and still count.
敷衍地、草草地（動作有做，但明顯不上心）
組成perfunctory + -ly, the usual adverb ending. Behind it: Latin perfungī 'to get through a duty' — per- 'through' + fungī 'to perform' — the idea of getting a job over with rather than doing it well.
同家族的字
- perfunctorythe adjective this adverb is built from
- functionsame Latin fungī 'to perform, to do a job'
- defunctde- + fungī — literally 'having finished performing', so no longer working or existing
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。
perfunctorilyadv/pəɹˈfʌŋkt(ə)ɹɪli/
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In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality.
- And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
- She answered perfunctorily. She said that, of course, they had picked out the two gunmen, but had thought nothing of it when the man with the stick had gone to stand behind Bond's chair.
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。