- 1含糊不清地、令人聽不懂地
The adverb of *unintelligible* — it describes the manner of speaking or writing, meaning it comes out in a way nobody can understand. It almost always sits next to a verb of speech: mumble unintelligibly, unintelligibly, shout something unintelligibly, write unintelligibly.
The grammar difference is worth being deliberate about. "His speech was unintelligible" describes the thing; "he spoke unintelligibly" describes the act. English writing, especially fiction, prefers the second when there is a person doing it — a character " unintelligibly into his collar".
It is a long, formal word and rare in speech; you will meet it far more in novels and reports than hear it at a dinner table. In conversation, people say "nobody could understand him" or "he was mumbling".
組成unintelligible（無法理解的）+ -ly（副詞字尾，表示「以……的方式」）。
同家族的字
- unintelligiblethe adjective it is built from
- intelligiblethe positive root adjective
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
unintelligiblyadv
- 1
In an unintelligible manner.
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