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In a way that is so strange, so exact, or so beyond ordinary explanation that it gives you a small chill. This is the adverb of uncanny, and in real English it does most of its work in one narrow place: in front of words about likeness and accuracy. Uncannily similar, uncannily accurate, uncannily like his father, uncannily good at guessing. There it means the match is too close to feel like chance — you notice it and something in you goes quiet. It also modifies verbs in the same spirit: the machine uncannily predicted every answer. What it does NOT mean is simply "very." Uncannily accurate is not just "very accurate"; it is accurate in a way that you a little. Keep that flicker of strangeness and you will use the word correctly. A note on register: it is a written, educated word. In everyday talk people say scarily similar, or creepily accurate, or just "it's kind of freaky how alike they are." Reach for uncannily when you are writing, or when you want the sentence to sound thoughtful rather than casual.
出奇地、詭異地(像得讓人發毛的那種「像」)。常見搭配:uncannily similar/accurate。
組成uncanny + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb (quick → quickly). Behind that, uncanny is un- + canny, where canny once meant "knowing" — so at the bottom of the word is the idea of something outside what we can know.
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。
uncannilyadv/ʌŋˈkænɪli/
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In an uncanny manner.
- The traveler very easily failed to notice one among the normal bushes and undergrowth, and the moment he was in range the venomous sting would slash out. Even the regular inhabitant of such a district found it difficult to detect a motionless triffid cunningly lurking beside a jungle path. They were uncannily sensitive to any movement near them, and hard to take unawares.
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。