- 1有品味地、雅緻地(常見搭配:tastefully decorated 裝潢雅緻)
Tastefully is the adverb: it tells you HOW something was done, and it says it was done with good judgement — quietly, suitably, without going too far. It sits with a small set of verbs again and again, almost always in the passive: tastefully , tastefully , tastefully dressed, tastefully done. If you learn 'tastefully ' as one lump, you have most of the word. You will meet it constantly in the language of selling and describing places — hotel pages, Airbnb listings, property advertisements, wedding write-ups. There it is close to a set phrase, a polite way of saying 'this looks good and we did not overdo it'. Because of that, it can sound a little bit like advertising when a student uses it in ordinary conversation. It carries the same restraint as tasteful: tastefully means with less, not with more. 'The room was tastefully ' tells your listener the room was calm and well put together — never that it was full of expensive things.
組成tasteful + -ly. The ending -ly turns a describing word into a how-word: careful → carefully, quiet → quietly, tasteful → tastefully.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
tastefullyadv
- 1
In a tasteful manner.
- He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.
- Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.
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