喜樂美語
  1. 1r/ˈseɪfli/安全地；平安地

    In a way that keeps people or things out of danger, or that leaves almost no chance of being wrong.

    「safely」是副詞，核心意思是「安全地、平安地」——動作完成時沒有危險。常見搭配：Drive safely!、arrive safely、store something safely。同一條線也長出「幾乎不會錯」：we can safely assume…（很有把握地假設）。可以想成「把風險擋在外面」——有時是身體危險，有時是猜錯的風險。safe 是形容詞；safely 修飾動詞。

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei phoned to say she had arrived safely after the trip.

    中文翻譯美打電話來說她在那趟旅行之後已經安全地到達了。

    常見搭配

    • arrive safely

      平安到達

      to reach a place without harm

      She phoned to say she had arrived safely.

    • drive safely

      小心開車；安全駕駛

      to drive in a careful way that avoids danger

      Drive safely! See you tomorrow.

    • can safely assume that

      可以很有把握地假設

      to believe something with almost no chance of being wrong

      I think we can safely assume that interest rates will go up again soon.

    • get home safely

      平安到家

      to reach home without harm

      Text me when you get home safely.

    • store / keep something safely

      安全地收好／保管

      to put something where it will not be harmed or cause harm

      Keep the matches safely out of reach of children.

    • return / land safely

      平安回來／安全降落

      to come back or come down without harm

      The plane landed safely after the storm.

    意思相近

    securelycarefullywithout harmwithout risk

    意思相反

    dangerouslyunsafelyrecklessly

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English savely; safe + -ly.

源自中古英文 savely，就是 safe 加上 -ly。

Wiktionary

You can think of safely as doing something with nothing bad able to reach you — the harm stays outside. From that same picture comes the second use: when you say you can safely say something, the risk that reaches you is not injury but being wrong.

可以想成「做某件事的時候，壞事碰不到你」——危險被擋在外面，過程順順地完成。有趣的是，英文把這個畫面延伸到說話上：I can safely say... 不是講人身安全，而是「這樣講幾乎不會出錯」，被擋在外面的東西從傷害換成了「說錯話的風險」。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

意思相近

securelycarefullywithout harmwithout risk

意思相反

dangerouslyunsafelyrecklessly

原始詞典資料2 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。

safelyadv/ˈseɪfli/

  • 1

    In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else.

    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
    • Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
  • 2

    In a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting.

    • Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cassock stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
    • It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.

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