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    Speechlessly is the adverb of speechless: doing something while too shocked, angry, or moved to say anything. It describes HOW an action is done, so it needs an action verb next to it — you stare speechlessly, nod speechlessly, sit speechlessly, watch speechlessly, hand something over speechlessly. Notice the shape of that list: the actions are all silent ones. That is not an accident. Since the word means no words come out, it attaches to the body doing the talking instead — eyes, head, hands. This is a distinctly written word. It belongs to novels and reports of dramatic scenes; in real speech people simply say 'I was speechless' and then say what they did. If you are a student writing a story, it is a good word to have. If you are chatting with a friend, you will almost never need it. Do not confuse the shape with the far more common pattern 'be speechless' — the adjective, not the adverb, is what English uses most of the time.

    啞口無言地、說不出話地(描寫動作,如「他啞口無言地看著我」)。這是書面語,寫小說、寫記敘文用;平常講話直接說 I was speechless 就好。

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組成speechless + -ly, the ordinary ending that turns an adjective into an adverb. Underneath that: speech + -less ('without') + -ly ('in that manner'). The -ly ending comes from an old Germanic word for 'body, form' — so originally it meant something like 'in the shape of'.

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    In a speechless manner; without speaking.

    • He stood there speechlessly. The surprise had rendered him unable to make an intelligible reply.
    • That afternoon they stood at the foot of Mrs. Civil's bed. She was propped up by pillows, and through the little window looking westward the afternoon sun blazed unsparingly on the discoloured face of the sick woman, speechlessly rigid.

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