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    To the very highest degree — better (or worse) than anything else of its kind. It goes in front of an adjective and pushes it to the top: superlatively good, superlatively talented, superlatively dull. "The food was superlatively good." It is stronger than very and stronger than extremely, because it does not just say "a lot" — it says "nothing beats this". That is the flavour of the Latin root: superlative means the top form of an adjective (big, bigger, biggest — biggest is the superlative). The word is formal and literary, the kind of thing a critic in a review of a concert, a restaurant, or a book. In everyday talk nobody says it; we say incredibly, amazingly, or just the best. Because it is so grand, writers also use it with a dry, ironic tone for bad things — "a superlatively boring afternoon" — where the joke is that even the was world-class.

    極其、無與倫比地(正式、書面用語,程度最高)

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組成superlative + -ly. Superlative comes from Latin super- 'above' + lat- 'carried' (the past-participle stem of ferre, 'to carry') — literally 'carried above everything else'. The -ly ending is native English and turns an adjective into an adverb.

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  • superlativethe adjective this adverb is made from
  • relatesame Latin lat- 'carried', from ferre 'to carry'
  • translatesame Latin lat- 'carried' — carried across
  • collatesame Latin lat- 'carried' — carried together

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。

superlativelyadv

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    In a superlative manner; in the greatest possible way.

    • We may form judgments of Italy widely different, according to circumstances. Sometimes the evil that has been said of it accords with what we see, and at others it appears superlatively unjust.

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