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Superfluously is the adverb from superfluous: doing something in a way that was not needed. It describes the manner of an action — adding, explaining, apologising, — when the action added nothing. 'He apologised, superfluously, for a delay nobody had noticed.' It is rarer than the adjective, and quite formal; even fluent speakers use it . A common pattern is to drop it between as a small aside, the writer's quiet comment that this bit was unnecessary. That aside often carries gentle mockery, though it can also be self-directed and modest ('I explained, superfluously, what everyone already knew'). If you want a plainer everyday version, 'unnecessarily' does almost the same work and sounds far less stiff.
多餘地、不必要地(副詞);相當於「白說了」「畫蛇添足地」那種語氣
組成superfluous + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb. Inside superfluous: Latin super ('over') + fluere ('to flow').
同家族的字
- superfluousthe adjective this adverb is made from
- fluidshares Latin fluere, 'to flow'
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。
superfluouslyadv
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In a superfluous 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。