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In a way that does not make people believe you. It is the adverb of 'unconvincing', so it describes HOW someone speaks, acts or performs — and it very often adds a small, dry comment from the writer. Look at 'He smiled unconvincingly': the writer is telling you the smile was fake and that everyone could see it. That is the flavour of this word — it lets a narrator raise an . You will meet it most in storytelling and in reviews, glued to verbs of speaking and pretending: say, argue, claim, protest, deny, smile, laugh, pretend, act. 'Not very convincingly' means the same thing and sounds more natural in conversation; the single word is tidier on the page. In sports writing it has its own life: to 'win unconvincingly' means to get the victory while looking weak, which pleases nobody.
沒有說服力地、(說得)讓人不太相信地
組成unconvincing(沒有說服力的)+ -ly(副詞字尾)。
同家族的字
- unconvincingthe adjective it comes from
- convincinglythe positive twin — in a way that makes people believe
- convincethe verb at the root
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。
unconvincinglyadv
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In an unconvincing manner.
- The speaker argued unconvincingly.
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。