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In the manner of someone who is a little bit drunk — not falling-down drunk, just loose, warm, and slightly wobbly. It describes HOW an action is done: swaying a little, laughing too easily, speaking a bit too loudly or too freely. It is a fairly literary, written-English word; in ordinary speech people are far more likely to say "a bit drunk" or "a little " and rearrange the sentence. When a writer chooses "tipsily", the tone is almost always light and rather than critical — you would not use it about someone with a serious drinking problem, and it would sound strange describing an ugly, angry drunk. Because it points at the pleasant, harmless end of drunkenness, it often carries a smile with it.
微醺地、帶著醉意地(形容動作,例如「他微醺地笑著」)
組成tipsy + -ly. The ending -ly turns an adjective into an adverb — it changes "what someone is like" into "how someone does something": quick → quickly, happy → happily, tipsy → tipsily. Note the spelling rule: a word ending in -y after a consonant changes the y to i before -ly.
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。
tipsilyadv
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In a tipsy manner.
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。