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Sociably is the adverb from sociable. It describes HOW someone does something — in a friendly, easy, wanting-to-be-with-people way. You put it next to a verb: 'they chatted sociably', 'she smiled sociably at the new student', 'he sat sociably with the older workers at lunch'. It is not a common word in daily speech; you meet it more in stories and in careful writing, and it often carries a small warm picture with it — people relaxed together, talking, nobody in a hurry. There is a second, quieter use worth knowing. Sometimes 'sociably' means 'in company, together with others' rather than 'in a friendly manner': 'We drank sociably after work' is less about being warm and more about the fact that it was done with people, as a shared thing, not alone. English speakers slide between those two easily. And notice the small edge the word can carry: because sociably describes the manner and not the heart, a writer can use it to show without warmth — 'he nodded sociably and moved away' tells you he did the friendly-looking thing, and nothing more.
友善地、合群地、和大家一起地。中文常說「和大家有說有笑地」「熱絡地」「隨和地」;有時只是「大家一起(做某事)」,不特別強調親密。
組成sociable + -ly. The ending -ly turns an adjective into an adverb — how something is done: quick → quickly, sociable → sociably. When a word ends in -le, the e drops and you write -ly: sociable → sociably, gentle → gently.
同家族的字
- sociablethe adjective this adverb is made from
- sociabilitythe noun from the same sociable
- socialshares Latin socius, 'companion'
- societyshares Latin socius, 'companion'
原始詞典資料3 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。
sociablyadv
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In a sociable manner; with free intercourse; conversibly; familiarly; as a companion.
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According to society or societal norms.
- In later years, marks, commendation cards, and paychecks become important incentives for accomplishments, while the range of socially acceptable behavior widens and the number of secondary drives multiplies.
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For social purposes, in a social situation
- If it were not for his work, everywhere he went socially, everywhere he mixed with others, would cause his past life to rear its ugly head.
- Mamma—poor dear Mamma is so unadvanced, you know!—has an idea that when the Superman does get here he won't be at all the sort of person that one would care to receive socially.
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。