喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to picture it: the situation has a shape, and you match it. Not right or wrong in the abstract — just fitting this particular occasion. A dark suit is suitably dressed for a funeral and badly wrong for the beach.

場合有它自己的形狀，而你正好跟它對得上。suitably 不是在說「對」或「好」這種絕對的判斷，而是說「跟這個場合合…更多收起場合有它自己的形狀，而你正好跟它對得上。suitably 不是在說「對」或「好」這種絕對的判斷，而是說「跟這個場合合得起來」——同一套深色西裝，在告別式上是 suitably dressed，在海邊就完全不對了。suit 本來就是「合身、相配」，加上 -ly 變成副詞，描述你做某件事的方式跟當下的情境相稱。

Two branches

外在準備跟場合相稱

這一族就是核心畫面最直接的樣子：合不合，看的是你身上帶的東西。

appropriately dressed or equipped · r · B2

Wearing the right clothes, or having the right information, equipment or training, for a particular situation. Used in the set pattern suitably dressed / prepared / equipped / qualified.

得體地；合乎場合地

內在反應跟場合相稱

同樣是「跟場合對得上」，只是這次對的不是你的衣服，而是你的反應：情境暗示了該有多少驚訝、多少感激、多少敬畏，而你正好給出那個份量。

as much as expected · r · C1

Feeling or showing as much of something as you would expect or hope for in that situation. Used in front of an adjective, usually one describing how someone reacts.

恰如其分地

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。

suitablyadv

  • 1

    In a suitable manner; with propriety.

    • Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

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。