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In a way that goes far past the normal limits of something. If you say a singer sang transcendently, you mean the singing went past what singing usually does — it stopped feeling like a person making sounds and started feeling like something bigger. The word carries that lift with it. It is a very formal, very literary word. You will meet it in reviews of music, art, and books, and in religious or philosophical writing, where it points at something above the ordinary world — beyond what we can touch, see, or fully explain. It is almost never said out loud in daily talk. People also use it in a looser, older way, simply as a strong 'extremely', to mean 'above all others': a transcendently beautiful face, a transcendently stupid idea. That use is a bit old-fashioned now, and a little grand — writers reach for it when 'very' feels too small and 'incredibly' feels too cheap. Note that it is not the same as the everyday 'beyond'; 'transcendently' always keeps a hint of rising above, not just passing.
超凡地;超越地(帶有「超出常理、超出這個世界」的味道,多用於藝術評論或宗教、哲學文章,口語幾乎不用)
組成transcendent + -ly. The -ly turns an adjective into an adverb (how something is done). 'Transcendent' comes from Latin trans- 'across, beyond' plus scandere 'to climb' — so at its root the picture is of climbing across and over something, rising past a limit.
同家族的字
- transcendthe verb behind it — trans- 'beyond' + scandere 'climb'
- transcendentthe adjective that -ly is added to
- transportshares trans- 'across' (carry across)
- translateshares trans- 'across' (carry a text across languages)
- ascendshares the Latin scandere 'to climb' (climb up)
- descendshares scandere 'to climb' (climb down)
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。
transcendentlyadv
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In a transcendent 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。