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Stiltedly is the adverb of stilted: doing something — usually speaking, reading aloud, or writing — in a stiff, over-formal, way, so that the effort shows. "He spoke stiltedly," "she read the announcement stiltedly," "they greeted each other stiltedly." Everything true of stilted is true here. The problem is not formality itself but formality that does not fit the moment, so the language sounds forced and does not flow. It is always critical. But be honest about how rare it is. This is a real word and you will find it in a dictionary, but even native writers reach for it only occasionally. In practice they far more often write "in a stilted way" or "," or rebuild the sentence around the adjective: "his speech was stilted." You will meet stiltedly perhaps once a year in reading — in a novel, a review, a careful essay. So the honest advice is: know it when you see it, and let the adjective do your own work. That is not a failing in you; it is how the word behaves for everybody.
生硬地、做作地(相當於「用生硬的方式」,實際上少用)
組成stilted + -ly, the ordinary ending that turns an adjective into an adverb. Underneath is stilt, the tall pole for walking on — walking on stilts is upright and impressive but stiff and unnatural, and so is language on stilts.
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。
stiltedlyadv
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Stiffly, or in an unnatural manner
- 1985 29 Aug, New Scientist, Vol. 107, No. 1471 p.50. TV programs reviews. It began with doggerel, spoken stiltedly by the quartet of presenters, who mocked what they had said but then continued to speak stiltedly throughout.
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。