- 1
You do something sceptically when you do it with doubt sitting in your mind. You listen sceptically. You look sceptically at a promise. You smile sceptically when a says they studied “for five minutes” and still got full marks. The adverb is simply the “how” of : same idea, used on a verb. It can sound calm and fair (“she asked sceptically for the source”), or a little sharp if the face and tone are cold. British spelling; Americans write skeptically. Though actually, you do not need a long speech to show it — a raised often does the same job.
懷疑地、以質疑的態度
組成sceptic + -ally(副詞字尾,等於 -al + -ly)。
同家族的字
- scepticthe noun the adverb is built from
- scepticalthe adjective; sceptically is how that attitude shows in an action
- scepticismthe name of the attitude itself
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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。