核心畫面
Picture washing a pan and going right round it — the base, the sides, the handle, the bit underneath the rim — so that no part is left untouched. That covering of every part is the picture. Once English had a word for doing something all the way through, it also became a handy way of saying that a feeling or an opinion covers you all the way through: thoroughly enjoyed it, thoroughly confused.
可以想成：洗一個鍋子，而且是整個繞一圈——底部、側面、把手、邊緣下面那一圈，沒有一處沒碰到。thoroughly 的…更多收起
可以想成：洗一個鍋子，而且是整個繞一圈——底部、側面、把手、邊緣下面那一圈，沒有一處沒碰到。thoroughly 的畫面比較像「每一處都走過」。而當一件事被做到這種程度，它也很自然被借去講感覺：整個人從裡到外都被那個感覺蓋滿，所以英文才會說 thoroughly enjoyed（玩得非常盡興）、thoroughly confused（完全搞糊塗了）。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。
thoroughlyadv/ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
- 1
In a thorough or complete manner.
- He went out in the rain and came back thoroughly drenched.
- The editor looked thoroughly for any mistakes in the paper.
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。