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Tremulously is the adverb from tremulous: it tells you that an action was done with a small shaking, and almost always that fear, nerves, weakness, or held-back tears caused it. It sits next to verbs of speaking, smiling, breathing, and reaching — 'she spoke tremulously', 'he smiled tremulously', 'the candle burned tremulously'. Because it packs both the physical shaking and the emotion behind it into one word, writers reach for it at moments when a character is barely holding together. It is quite literary; you meet it in novels far more than in conversation, and using it in ordinary speech will make you sound like a character in a book. In real talk people simply say 'in a shaky voice' or 'her hand was shaking'. Note also that it can describe light or water quivering, with no person and no emotion at all.
顫抖地、哆嗦地 (帶著緊張或害怕的細微發抖)。文學用語,口語會說 in a shaky voice
原始詞典資料2 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。
tremulouslyadv
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In a trembling, quivering, or shaking manner.
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In a timid, hesitant, or unconfident manner; betraying fear in the voice.
- "Are you—all—all right?" she asked, tremulously.
- `This time place really is falling down,' she cried tremulously.
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。