喜樂美語
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    In a careful, not-fully-sure way, because you haven't decided for certain yet or you're testing something out. You might tentatively agree to a plan (you say yes, but you might change your mind), or step tentatively onto ice (carefully, because you're not sure it's safe).

    試探性地、暫時地

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組成tentative + -ly (adverb ending); 'tentative' comes from Latin 'tentare' (to try or test)

同家族的字

  • tentativethe adjective this word comes from
  • attemptshares the same Latin root, meaning 'to try'

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。

tentativelyadv/ˈtɛntətɪvli/

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    In a tentative manner.

    • This last activity was studied in the second paper of this series and it was suggested tentatively that the peculiarly adaptive discoördination in this and other reactions might be due to the pull of part upon part, acting through the substrate.

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。