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Like a good sister: warm, caring, protective, but with no romance in it at all. It describes the feeling or the behaviour, not the family fact — you can be sisterly to a friend, a neighbour, a younger colleague, anyone. The commonest words after it are advice, love, affection, concern, and a sisterly hug or a sisterly kiss. That last pair is worth noticing: people often use the word exactly to rule romance out. "She gave me a sisterly kiss on the cheek" means the kiss was kind and it meant nothing more, and the speaker usually says it a little sadly. The word feels slightly formal and a bit old-fashioned; in everyday speech people are more likely to say "like a sister to me". There is also a wider use, common in women's groups and in , where sisterly means women standing together and supporting each other — sisterly solidarity. It can work as an adverb too (she behaved sisterly towards him), but that sounds odd to most ears, and even native speakers avoid it.
姊妹般的;像姐姐一樣的(親切、關心、沒有男女之情)。中文常用「像家人一樣」或「把他當弟弟看」來表達同一個意思。
組成sister + -ly, the ending that means "in the way that this kind of person does" — the same -ly in friendly, motherly, brotherly, and cowardly. Careful: this is a different job from the -ly that turns an adjective into an adverb (slow → slowly), even though it is spelled the same.
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。
sisterlyadj詞源 1/ˈsɪstəli/
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Of or characteristic of sisters.
- Poor Mary [Austin] will do her very best and sisterliest for you. A kinder soul is not in the Earth.
- Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.
sisterlyadv詞源 2/ˈsɪstəli/
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In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
- "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"
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。