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Trenchantly is the adverb from trenchant. It says that someone spoke, wrote, argued, or observed in a way that was sharp, direct, and to the point, with no to spare people's feelings — and, importantly, that they were right. 'He wrote trenchantly about the failures of the scheme' means the writing cut straight to what had gone wrong. You will nearly always find it attached to verbs of saying and writing: argue, observe, comment, put it, criticise. Like the adjective, it is formal and written; it lives in reviews, editorials, and serious essays, and would sound very odd in a chat with friends. It also keeps the adjective's tone. If you want to say someone spoke sharply in a way that only hurt, use 'harshly' or 'bluntly' instead — trenchantly carries the extra claim that the sharp words landed on the truth.
一針見血地、犀利地 (形容說話或寫作直指要害)。正式書面語,帶肯定的語氣
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。
trenchantlyadv
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In a trenchant manner.
- By hammering trenchantly on that point, Podson was induced to say sulkily, "Oh, all right, if you're so set on it...I never mentioned it. Hang it, I'm not likely to mention it to anybody, am I?"
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。