- 1rB1
/ˈseɪfli/
In a way that keeps people or things out of danger, or that leaves almost no chance of being wrong.
安全地；平安地
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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」。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。
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.
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。