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    The adverb of 'uncouth' — it describes an action rather than a person. Where 'uncouth' says what someone is, 'uncouthly' says how they did something: , coarsely, without the manners the situation asked for. 'He ate uncouthly.' 'She laughed uncouthly at the funeral.' Everything true of 'uncouth' is true here: it is about polish rather than kindness, it looks down at the person from a position of good breeding, and it can sound snobbish. But add one more thing — 'uncouthly' is much rarer than 'uncouth' itself, and heavy in the mouth, four of it. Native writers usually avoid it. They keep the adjective and rebuild the sentence: not 'he behaved uncouthly' but 'his behaviour was uncouth', or simply 'he had terrible manners'. You will meet it mostly in older books and in writing that is deliberately formal or arch. Recognise it when you read it; you will rarely need to write it.

    粗俗地、沒教養地(uncouth 的副詞形)。中文多半直接說「他吃相很難看」「他很沒規矩」,不會刻意用副詞。這個字在英文裡也很少用,讀得懂就好。

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    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成uncouth + -ly. The suffix -ly turns an adjective into an adverb (quick → quickly, kind → kindly) and comes from Old English -lice, originally meaning 'having the body or form of'. Underneath sits un- + couth, Old English cūþ 'known' — so at the very bottom, this long word means 'in an unfamiliar way'.

同家族的字

  • uncouththe adjective it is built from
  • kindlysame -ly adverb suffix on an adjective
  • canfrom Old English cunnan 'to know', the root under couth

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。

uncouthlyadv

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    In an uncouth manner.

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