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This is the adverb from 'unflinching' — it tells you how someone did something: without pulling back, without it, without looking away. It attaches to verbs in two main patterns. With verbs of facing or looking: she stared unflinchingly at the camera, he faced the crowd unflinchingly. With verbs of speaking, writing, or showing: the report unflinchingly describes what the soldiers did, the film unflinchingly shows life in the factory. That second pattern is the common one in modern writing — a book or film reviewer's favourite word for praising someone who refuses to make an ugly subject prettier. A third pattern is 'unflinchingly + adjective', as in 'unflinchingly honest', 'unflinchingly direct'. Here it works like 'completely' but with the added meaning that being this honest took nerve and probably cost something. It is a formal, written word. You will meet it in reviews, essays, and serious journalism far more than in conversation.
毫不退縮地、直視不避地;用來形容文章或影片時是「不迴避地、赤裸裸地(呈現)」。
組成unflinching + -ly, the ordinary English ending that turns an adjective into an adverb. Inside that: un- ('not') + flinch ('to move back from fear or pain') + -ing.
同家族的字
- unflinchingthe adjective this is built from.
- flinchthe base verb at the centre of the word.
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。
unflinchinglyadv
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Without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.
- Ursula, raising her head, looked unflinchingly into Mina's shifty eyes.
- I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it.
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。