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    Tunefully is the adverb from . It tells you HOW someone sang, played, whistled or hummed: in a way that sounded pleasant, with a clear and agreeable melody. Because it is an adverb, it goes with a verb, not with a noun — "she sang tunefully", not "a tunefully song". That is the whole difference between this word and , and it is the thing students mix up most. Where you actually meet it: describing a person singing or playing, in writing rather than in speech. "He whistled tunefully as he worked." "The children sang tunefully enough, considering they had only twice." It often appears with a small qualifier like that — quite tunefully, tunefully enough — because it is the kind of moderate praise that likes a little hedging next to it. Like , it feels literary and a bit old-fashioned; you will find it in a novel or a review much more often than in a conversation. In everyday speech, people simply say "she sang beautifully" or "he sang well". The natural opposite is .

    (唱、吹、彈得)旋律優美地、很好聽地。是 tuneful 的副詞,用來形容「怎麼唱」而不是形容那首歌。中文一句「她唱得很好聽」就到位了;英文寫成 tunefully 帶點文學味,平常講話會直接說 sang beautifully 或 sang well。

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組成tuneful (pleasant to listen to) + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb). Underneath that: tune + -ful + -ly. The -ly suffix is the same one in quickly, quietly, carefully.

同家族的字

  • tunefulthe adjective this comes from — tunefully is just tuneful plus the adverb ending -ly
  • tunelesslythe opposite, built the same way: tune + -less + -ly
  • quietlyshares the adverb ending -ly, which answers the question 'how?'

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。

tunefullyadv

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    In a tuneful manner.

    • They sang very tunefully, too, for the girls had fresh voices and true ears.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。