- 1驚人地、出奇地（放在形容詞前加強語氣，如 startlingly similar 出奇地相似）
The adverb of 'startling': to a degree that makes you stop and take notice. Its main job is to sit in front of an adjective and push it up, while adding 'and that is hard to believe' — startlingly similar, startlingly beautiful, startlingly honest, startlingly low prices. Think of it as a more dramatic 'very' that also comments on the fact. It is very common with words about likeness and difference ('startlingly alike'), with numbers ('startlingly high'), and with frankness ('she was startlingly direct about her salary'), where it signals that the honesty went further than was expected. It can also modify a whole clause at the front of a sentence — 'Startlingly, no one had checked the figures' — meaning the writer finds this hard to believe. It belongs to careful writing rather than chat; in speech people say 'surprisingly' or just 'really'.
組成startling + -ly, the usual ending that turns an adjective into an adverb.
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。
startlinglyadv
- 1
In a startling manner; surprisingly; shockingly.
- Afterwards I took it back when it was borne in upon me startlingly with what extreme nicety he had estimated the time requisite for the ‘affair.’
- Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country.
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