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/ˈsʌmwʌt/ · /ˈsʌmwɒt/
More than a little but not very; used to make an adjective or statement softer or less strong.
有點 / 稍微
核心畫面
Picture a dial being turned down a notch: the statement is still true, but the speaker has taken some of the force out of it on purpose. Somewhat is that notch — it moves a word off "very" without dropping it to "not at all".
可以想成：一個旋鈕被刻意往回轉了一格——話還是那句話，但說話的人把力道收了一點。somewhat 就是那一格。它把一…更多收起
可以想成：一個旋鈕被刻意往回轉了一格——話還是那句話，但說話的人把力道收了一點。somewhat 就是那一格。它把一個形容詞從「很」往下移，但沒有移到「完全不」。用它的人多半是在保留餘地，或是不想把話講死，這種分寸感正是它常出現在書面語的原因。原始詞典資料5 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。
somewhatadv/ˈsʌmwɒt/
- 1
To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
- The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
- The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
- 2
Very.
- That hat seems somewhat small for him.
- Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten […]
somewhatpron/ˈsʌmwɒt/
- 1
archaicSomething.
- Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]
- a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
somewhatnoun/ˈsʌmwɒt/
- 1
A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
- Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
- To these ladies a man often recommends himself while he is commending another woman; and, while he is expressing ardour and generous sentiments for his mistress, they are considering what a charming lover this man would make to them, who can feel all this tenderness for an inferior degree of merit. Of this, strange as it may seem, I have seen many instances besides Mrs Fitzpatrick, to whom all this really happened, and who now began to feel a somewhat for Mr Jones, the symptoms of which she much sooner understood than poor Sophia had formerly done.
- 2
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.
- Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat. What am I?
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。