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Soundlessly means in a way that makes no sound. It is the adverb, so it describes how something is done: a door opens soundlessly, someone crosses a room soundlessly, a cat drops soundlessly onto the grass. Like the adjective it comes from, this is writer's English — you find it in stories, especially where somebody is moving carefully and does not want to be heard, or where a scene is being watched from a distance with the sound somehow removed. Notice how often it goes with movement verbs (move, walk, slip, glide, open, close) and with — 'she wept soundlessly' is a whole picture in two words, grief with the noise taken out of it. In everyday speech people say 'without a sound' or 'quietly' instead. 'Without a sound' is the phrase to reach for if you want the same meaning but natural spoken English.
無聲地、悄然地。文學用語,口語通常說 without a sound 或「悄悄地」。
組成sound + -less (without) + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb). So: in a way that has no sound.
同家族的字
- soundlessthe adjective this adverb is made from
- quietlysame -ly, forming an adverb of manner
- hopelesslysame -less + -ly pattern
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。
soundlesslyadv
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In a manner that makes no noise.
- Hassan kneed himself up, over, in, soundlessly, feet on floor, knife out, eyes like blunter knife trying to cut darkness.
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。