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Stand-offishly is the adverb: it tells you the way someone did something — , keeping their distance, as if they did not want to be close to you. "He nodded stand-offishly and walked away." The nod happened; the is how it happened. Because it is an adverb, it sits next to a verb, not next to a noun. You say a person is stand-offish, but that a person behaves stand-offishly, speaks stand-offishly, smiles stand-offishly. That last one is a nice example of what the word does: even a smile can be given in a way that keeps you outside. I should be straight with you about how often this is used. It is rare. Native speakers write "stand-offish" many times more often than "stand-offishly", partly because it is long and a little awkward in the mouth. Most people would say "he was stand-offish about it" or "he was cool with me" rather than reach for the adverb. You will meet it in novels more than in speech. So: know it when you read it, and feel free to use it in writing, but do not feel you must. Both spellings, stand-offishly and standoffishly, are accepted.
冷淡地、有距離地(做某件事)。是 stand-offish 的副詞形,形容「做事的態度」冷冷的、不想跟你親近。這個字其實用得很少,看得懂就好。
組成stand off (keep away) + -ish (somewhat) + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb, as in quickly and kindly).
同家族的字
- stand-offishthe adjective this is built from
- stand offthe phrasal verb at the bottom of the whole family
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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。