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Tranquilly means in a calm, quiet, peaceful way. It describes how something is done or how it happens — a river flowing tranquilly, someone sleeping tranquilly, a village sitting tranquilly at the foot of a hill. The calm here is a settled, calm, the kind you notice in a place or a scene, not the calm of a person forcing themselves to stay cool in a crisis. It is a literary word. You will meet it in novels, travel writing and poetry far more than in speech; if you say it in conversation it sounds a little grand. In ordinary talk people say 'peacefully', 'quietly' or 'calmly' instead. Note also that it is much less common than the adjective 'tranquil' — writers usually rearrange the sentence to use the adjective rather than reach for the adverb.
安詳地、寧靜地(書面語,口語會說「很平靜地」)
組成tranquil (calm) + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb, telling you how). Note the two l's: tranquil + ly.
同家族的字
- tranquilthe adjective it is built from
- tranquillitythe noun for the same quality
- tranquillizerthe drug that makes you tranquil
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。
tranquillyadv
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In a tranquil manner.
- When we see a party looking tranquilly up to heaven, unconscious that his body is shot through and through with arrows, we know that that is St. Sebastian.
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。