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Ruminatively means “in a deep, careful, slowly-thinking way.” It is the adverb from ruminative, so it tells you how someone does something: she spoke ruminatively; he stared ruminatively at the rain. It has the same quiet, flavour as the adjective. You will almost only see it in writing. In serious prose it does not mean “like a cow” as a joke, though the picture underneath is still that slow second chew. Use it when the thinking itself is the point of the sentence.
沉思地、反覆思索地
組成From ruminative + -ly.
同家族的字
- ruminativethe adjective this adverb is built from
- ruminatethe verb at the root
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。
ruminativelyadv
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In a ruminative way.
- But who could not have been captivated by the passages of ecstatic murmurings; shimmering, unhinged harmonies; ruminatively Wagnerian lyricism?
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。