1. 1可怕地、嚇人地;放在形容詞前面時是「快(好、準)到令人害怕」。這個字的「怕」是真的怕,跟 terrifically 不一樣。

    'Terrifyingly' is an adverb built straight from 'terrifying', and unlike 'terrifically' it has kept all its fear. It has two jobs. First, it describes how something is done or how it looks, meaning 'in a way that makes people very afraid': the storm came terrifyingly close, the bridge swayed terrifyingly. Second — and this is how you meet it most often — it sits in front of an adjective and means 'so much that it is frightening': terrifyingly fast, terrifyingly good, terrifyingly accurate, terrifyingly young. Notice that even a good quality can take it; 'she is terrifyingly good at chess' is a compliment with a in it. Writers also use it to open a sentence — 'Terrifyingly, no one noticed for three days' — where it comments on the whole fact, not on any one word. It is a strong word, so it stands out; use it when you really mean the feeling, and it is common in news writing, reviews, and storytelling.

組成'Terrify' + '-ing' (making the adjective 'terrifying') + '-ly' (making it an adverb). 'Terrify' comes from Latin 'terrere', to frighten.

同家族的字

  • terrifythe verb underneath it, from Latin 'terrere', to frighten
  • terrorsame Latin root 'terrere'
  • terriblesame Latin root 'terrere'
  • terrificsame Latin root 'terrere' — though its meaning turned positive

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。

terrifyinglyadv

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    In a terrifying manner.

    • The special effects were terrifyingly realistic the first time I saw them.
    • After 'class war', we now apparently have 'location war'. If this idea is allowed to progress beyond Ms Harperson's terrifyingly one-track mind, hundreds of public organisations will have to have special quotas for Yorkshirepersons or Cornishpersons whenever a vacancy occurs.

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