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This is the adverb of reverent. If you do something reverently, you do it with deep respect, often quietly, as if the place or the person is special. People speak reverently in a temple; they hold a family photo reverently. Like reverent, it is a little more formal than respectfully, and it often carries a holy or very serious feeling. Though actually, it is not only for religion: you can listen reverently to an old story, or step reverently into a room where someone is sleeping.
恭敬地、虔誠地
組成From Middle English reverently, equal to reverent + -ly.
同家族的字
- reverentthe adjective this adverb is built from
- reverethe verb at the root
- reverentiallya close cousin; built from reverential instead
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。
reverentlyadv
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in a reverent manner.
- One of a small community of superannuated pensioners upon the bounty of their former owners, Daddy was easily first citizen of Evergreen annex on Crepe Myrtle plantation, which is to say he was therein a personage of place and of privilege, coming and going at will, doing as he pleased, and as, with uplifted eye, he reverently boasted, 'sponsible to nobody but Almighty Gord for manners and behavior."
- All officers in command of Her Majesty’s ships shall cause public worship of Almighty God to be solemnly, orderly and reverently performed in their respective ships, and shall take care that prayers and preaching, by the chaplains of those ships, be performed diligently and that the Lord’s Day be observed.
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。