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In a way that breaks a promise — most often the promise between two people who are together. If someone "behaves unfaithfully," they had sex with, or a romance with, someone who is not their husband, wife, or partner. The word is an adverb, so it tells you HOW someone acted: "He acted unfaithfully." Honestly, this is not a common word in daily speech. English speakers almost never say "he behaved unfaithfully" out loud — they say "he cheated on her," or "he was ." You will meet unfaithfully in writing: newspapers, novels, court reports, church talk, anything careful or old-fashioned. It sounds serious and a little distant, which is sometimes exactly why a writer picks it — it does not sound as angry as "cheated." There is a second, older use, outside of love: to do a job unfaithfully means to do it without keeping your promise to it — a servant, a translator, a person paid to guard something. You will see this mostly in old books. Both uses share one idea: a promise was made, and the person did not keep it.
不忠地、出軌地(副詞)
組成un- (not) + faith (trust, a promise you keep) + -ful (full of) + -ly (the ending that makes an adverb, telling how something is done). So: in a way that is not full of faith.
同家族的字
- faithfulthe same faith + -ful; unfaithfully is its opposite
- faiththe root — trust, or a promise kept
- unfaithfulnesssame word, made into a noun instead of an adverb
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。
unfaithfullyadv
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In an unfaithful manner.
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。