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The adverb of 'spry': doing something in a quick, light, energetic way, when you would not quite expect it of the person's age. It attaches to verbs of movement — someone steps spryly off a bus, walks spryly up a hill, moves spryly across the room. Like 'spry', the word carries a small note of pleasant surprise, so the person is nearly always old. It is a fairly rare word; most people say 'he moved quickly for his age' instead. You will meet it in writing more than in speech.
（老人）敏捷地、俐落有勁地
組成spry (lively, quick-moving) + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb (how something is done).
同家族的字
- sprythe adjective this adverb is built from
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。
sprylyadv
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In a spry manner.
- But now an express had rolled up and the old man was disappearing quite spryly inside one of its doors.
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。