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Stockily is the adverb from 'stocky', and in real life you will meet it in almost one phrase only: stockily built. To be stockily built is to be short and thick and solid-looking — wide shoulders, a heavy body, strong rather than tall or thin. Picture a wrestler, or a farmer who has carried things all his life. The important thing for a student is that this is not an word. English has plenty of cruel words for body shape; 'stockily built' is not one of them. It suggests strength and firmness, not fat. Police descriptions use it a lot for exactly that reason — 'a stockily built man in his forties' — because it describes without insulting. You will almost never see it alone, the way you can say 'She walked slowly.' 'He stood stockily' sounds wrong to a native ear. Keep it beside 'built', and occasionally 'made'.
(身材)矮壯地、結實粗壯地;最常見的用法是 stockily built「身材矮壯結實」,帶有壯而不胖的意思
組成stocky (short and solidly built, from stock, a thick post) + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- stockythe adjective this comes from
- stockinessthe noun from the same stocky
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。
stockilyadv
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In a stocky manner.
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。