1. 1粗魯而突然地、毫不客氣地(草草了事、連個交代都沒有)

    In a rough, sudden, abrupt way, with no and no proper goodbye or explanation. It almost always describes how someone was pushed, dropped, thrown, or removed — 'He was unceremoniously thrown out of the bar', 'She dumped the bag unceremoniously on the floor', 'The manager was unceremoniously after eight years'. The word carries a feeling of : the person or thing deserved better treatment than they got, and the speaker usually thinks so too. A 'ceremony' is a formal event with proper steps, so doing something 'unceremoniously' means skipping all the proper steps — no warning, no thanks, no dignity. It is a slightly literary or newspaper-ish word; you meet it far more in writing than in daily speech. It works only as an adverb, so it needs a verb to attach to, and it usually sits right next to that verb.

組成un-(不)+ ceremonious(講究禮數的)+ -ly(副詞字尾)。核心是 ceremony「儀式、禮數」——把該有的禮數全部省掉。

同家族的字

  • ceremonythe same root: the formal event whose proper steps are being skipped
  • ceremonialsame root — belonging to a ceremony

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

unceremoniouslyadv

  • 1

    In an unceremonious manner, abruptly, without the due formalities.

    • Encountering difficulties with the parcels’ unhelpful recipient, the deliveryman unceremoniously dumped the packages in the street outside the door.
    • Given these operational constraints and a renewed focus on the environment, plans to electrify the [Windermere] branch resurfaced in 2013 when the Department for Transport consented to a £16 million scheme to erect wires by 2024. Unfortunately, it was one of a trio of projects to then be unceremoniously scrapped by former Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling in July 2017, in response to spiralling costs on the Great Western Electrification Programme.

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