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Shamefacedly tells you how someone does a thing: with a face and manner that show they feel they have done wrong. They admit, smile, shuffle in, or hand something over in that small, sorry way. It does not describe the person as a type; it describes the manner of one action. The word is a little formal and a little old-fashioned — more in writing than in speech. In talk, people more often say looking ashamed or with an smile. Though actually, the -edly ending makes it look heavier than it feels when you say it: shame-faced-ly, the middle part like faced.
羞愧地、不好意思地
組成shamefaced + -ly (in that manner).
同家族的字
- shamefacedthe adjective this adverb comes from
- shamethe feeling behind the manner
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。
shamefacedlyadv
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In a shamefaced manner.
- The offending train ahead proved to be the 9.30 a.m. from Waterloo, which after Southampton checked us again and again until at last we passed it, headed by 4-6-0 No. 30850, Lord Nelson, standing shamefacedly in the loop at Pokesdown.
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。