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This is with -ly on the end: it tells you when, not what kind. If a problem is found prenatally, doctors see it before the baby is born. A baby can meet a medicine, a drink, or a sound prenatally — while still inside. You almost only need this in health and science talk. It does the same work as 'before birth', only in one word, which is why reports like it. It does not mean 'in a parent way', and it is not a . Same idea, different slot in the sentence.
在產前;於出生前
組成prenatal + -ly, the usual English way to make a when-word from a describing word.
同家族的字
- prenatalthe describing word this -ly form is made 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。
prenatallyadv/pɹiːˈneɪtəli/
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Before birth.
- Tall, muscular, golden-skinned, he ranted bitterly about the injustice done to him pre-natally.
- It has been estimated that about two out of three fetuses with prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome are aborted in the United States.
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。