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When something is done provisionally, it is agreed or treated as true for now, but it is not final — it can still be changed. A university may provisionally accept you: you have a place unless later papers or scores fail. A room can be provisionally booked: they are holding it, but the date might move. It is a rather official word, common in forms, meetings, and careful email. In everyday talk people often say “for now” or “for the time being.” It is not a vague “maybe.” It is closer to “yes, with the understanding that we might undo this.”
暫定地;暫時(先這樣、以後可能改)
組成provisional + -ly. Provisional means “for now, not final”; -ly turns that adjective into an adverb: in a provisional way.
同家族的字
- provisionalthe adjective this adverb is built from
- provisionsame family: something provided — a supply, or a condition written into a plan
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。
provisionallyadv
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In a provisional way; temporarily.
- Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.
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。