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This is the adverb of 'stolid'. It describes HOW someone does something: with no visible feeling, no reaction, when a reaction would be expected. He stared stolidly ahead. She went on eating stolidly while everyone argued. Because it is an adverb, it usually sits with a verb of looking, sitting, standing, listening, waiting, or continuing — quiet, still actions. That is worth noticing, because you would rarely say someone 'ran stolidly'; the word wants a body that is not moving much. Like 'stolid', it leans : it suggests dullness rather than self-control. But it also has a second flavour that the adjective has less of — stubborn continuing. When someone works stolidly on, or waits stolidly in the rain, you feel they are and will not stop, and there can be a quiet respect in that. It is a written, formal word; you will meet it in stories, not in a conversation at the night market.
面無表情地、木然地、無動於衷地(stolid 的副詞)。也常帶「一聲不吭地繼續做下去」的意味。
組成stolid + -ly. The ending -ly turns an adjective into an adverb — it tells you HOW something is done.
同家族的字
- stolidthe adjective this 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。
stolidlyadv
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In a stolid manner.
- On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
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。