- 1不情願地、勉強地
Reluctantly is how you do something when you are not willing, or when you make that unwillingness show: you move slowly, you say yes late, you look as if someone is pulling you. She reluctantly agreed. He got up reluctantly. This is the everyday member of the family — you hear the adverb in speech more than the noun . Though actually, it does not always mean the person hates the thing. It can be manners: you reluctantly take the last cake because grabbing it fast looks greedy. Parents, news, and stories all use it; it is not a fancy word, just a little more careful than but I didn't want to.
From the word’s history
From reluctant + -ly.
reluctant「不情願的」加上 -ly。
組成From reluctant + -ly.
同家族的字
- reluctantthe adjective this is built from
- reluctancethe noun: the unwillingness itself
原始詞典資料1 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。
reluctantlyadv/ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/
- 1
In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
- Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.
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