- 1稀疏地、零星地（最常見的搭配是 sparsely populated 人口稀少）
The adverb of 'sparse' — it tells you HOW something is spread or filled, and the answer is: , with big gaps. You attach it to a verb or to a past participle. The most common partner by far is 'populated': a sparsely populated area is one where few people live and they live far from each other. After that, 'sparsely furnished' (a room with almost nothing in it), 'sparsely attended' (few people came), 'sparsely wooded' (a few trees here and there). Notice the pattern — 'sparsely' almost always comes right before a word ending in -ed that describes a state. That is where you will meet it, and that is the safest way to use it. Like 'sparse', it belongs to written and formal English. A friend telling you about a trip would say 'hardly anyone lives there'; a textbook would say 'the region is sparsely populated'.
組成sparse + -ly. The ending -ly turns a describing word into a word about how something is done: quick → quickly, sparse → sparsely.
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- denselynot the same root, but the exact opposite partner — 'densely populated' is the phrase you will see next to 'sparsely populated'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
sparselyadv
- 1
In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.
- a sparsely populated region
- Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
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