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/ˌsaɪməlˈteɪniəsli/ · /ˌsɪməlˈteɪniəsli/
happening or done at exactly the same time as something else, with neither one starting first.
同時的；同時地
核心畫面
You can picture two clocks striking together: not one after the other, not one leading and the other catching up, but both events filling the very same slice of time. The word's job is to insist on that overlap.
可以想成兩件事共用同一段時間：不是一前一後，也不是誰先起頭、誰再跟上，而是兩個動作剛好壓在同一格時間裡。這個字的作用…更多收起
可以想成兩件事共用同一段時間：不是一前一後，也不是誰先起頭、誰再跟上，而是兩個動作剛好壓在同一格時間裡。這個字的作用就是把「同時」這件事講死——強調沒有先後之分。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。
simultaneouslyadv/ˌsɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/
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Occurring at the same time.
- The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.
- Numa was about to charge—there was little time in which to compare various methods or weigh the probable results of any. And then a number of things happened, almost simultaneously—the lion sprang from his ambush toward the retreating black—Tarzan cried out in warning—and the black turned just in time to see Numa halted in mid-flight by a slender strand of grass rope, the noosed end of which had fallen cleanly about his neck.
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。