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    The adverb of 'unforgivable': in a way so bad that it cannot be forgiven. In real use it almost always sits in front of an adjective and works as a very heavy 'far too' — 'unforgivably rude', 'unforgivably slow', 'unforgivably late'. The speaker is not calmly reporting; they are angry or being dramatic on purpose. That is worth noticing: because the word is so strong, using it about a small thing is a way of showing feeling, and a lot of real examples are exactly that — a restaurant review calling the service unforgivably slow, a friend saying you replied unforgivably late to a message. Nobody is really talking about forgiveness. It can also follow a verb, as in 'he behaved unforgivably', and there it keeps its full serious weight — that one means a genuine wrong, not a joke. Like 'unforgettably', the adjective is far more common than the adverb in everyday speech; the -ly form belongs more to writing, reviews, and people performing their .

    不可原諒地、過分到無法原諒地。實際上最常放在形容詞前面表示「誇張到極點」,例如 unforgivably rude = 沒禮貌到讓人氣不過。

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組成un- (not) + forgive + -able + -ly. Literally: in a way that cannot be forgiven. The -ly is the last piece added, turning the adjective unforgivable into an adverb.

同家族的字

  • unforgivablethe adjective this comes from — drop the -ly
  • forgivethe root verb buried at the centre
  • unforgettablybuilt the exact same way, and used the same way in front of adjectives

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。

unforgivablyadv

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    In an unforgivable manner.

    • Mr. Dukakis charged that when it came to advising President Reagan on Iran, Mr. Bush was "disastrously and completely and unforgivably wrong."
    • The astonished Ken Wharfe came by just in time to witness this bizarre spectacle and in an appropriately policemanly manner rebuked the butler for his 'unforgivably disloyal' and 'deeply unprofessional' behaviour.

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