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Subtly means in a way that is gentle, small, or hard to notice at first — the opposite of loud or obvious. A subtly different flavor is one you almost miss; someone who subtly changes the subject does it so smoothly you barely realize.
巧妙地、微妙地、不著痕跡地
組成subtle + -ly (adverb ending — note the silent 't' stays silent)
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。
subtlyadv/ˈsʌt.li/
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With subtleness, in a subtle manner; with cleverness rather than brute force.
- Nexte cometh Arrius by ſoo muche the more wretched and madde in opynyon, by howe muche he dothe more ſubtely and craftily geue unto Chriſt the body of a man, and taketh from hym the ſowle of a man, […]
- For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.
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。