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/ˈriːsəntli/
not long before now, especially in the last few days, weeks, or months.
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Picture yourself standing on 'now' and reaching backwards along a line of days. You do not reach far — just a short arm's length behind you, into the days or weeks you can still remember without effort. Whatever your hand touches in that short reach is what 'recently' points at. That short backward reach can be held as the picture inside the word: the event is finished and behind you, but it is still close enough that it feels connected to today. That is also why 'recently' sits so naturally with 'I have...' (I have recently moved) — the past thing is still touching the present.
可以想成你站在「現在」這一點上，往後伸手摸過去的日子。你不會伸太遠，就一個手臂的距離，摸到的是那些不用刻意回想就記得…更多收起
可以想成你站在「現在」這一點上，往後伸手摸過去的日子。你不會伸太遠，就一個手臂的距離，摸到的是那些不用刻意回想就記得的幾天、幾週。手碰得到的那一段，就是 recently 指的範圍。這個「往後短短一伸」的動作，可以拿來當作這個字的畫面：事情已經結束、在你身後了，但近到還跟今天連著。也因為這樣，recently 特別常跟 I have... 一起出現（I have recently moved 我最近搬了家）——那件過去的事，手還牽著現在。原始詞典資料2 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。
recentlyadv/ˈɹiːsənt.li/
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In the recent past
- My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants.
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
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In the recent past
- I haven't been sleeping well recently.
- Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
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。