喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Middle English positively; positive + -ly.

positive 加 -ly。

Wiktionary

Positively works off two sides of "positive". One is certainty: something is fixed, settled, beyond argument — you can identify it positively, and from there the word becomes a way of stressing that a surprising thing really is so. The other is the plus side: the good end of the good/bad line, and, in science, the plus end of an electric charge. A useful way to hold it: the word points at one end of a scale and says "this end, no doubt about it".

可以想成 positively 站在 positive 的兩個面上。一面是「確定」：事情已經釘死了、沒得爭辯，所以你可以 positively identify 一個人；從這裡再走一步，它就變成一種強調語氣，用來說某件聽起來誇張的事真的就是這樣。另一面是「正的那端」：好壞那條線上好的一端，在科學裡則是電荷正的那端。一個好用的抓法是：這個字指著某一端，然後說「就是這端，沒有疑問」。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

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slightlynegativelybarelycoldlyhardlyunfavourablydoubtfullypessimisticallyvaguelygloomilytentativelypossibly+2

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

positivelyadv/ˈpɒz.ɪ.tɪv.li/

  • 1

    mannerIn a positive manner.

    • He approached the interview positively.
    • There’s nothing – not. one. thing. – that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDSers.
  • 2

    With certainty.

    • I will positively be there at 8 a.m.
    • The carriage nearly overturned, and he saw her eyes blaze at him, and she positively hissed, “I suppose you are enjoying this?”
  • 3

    Absolutely; utterly.

    • […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.
    • She talked and laughed and positively forgot until he had come in (just as she had imagined) that Pearl Fulton had not turned up.
  • 4

    Very.

    • I had a positively wonderful time.
    • The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

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