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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".
含糊不清地、令人聽不懂地
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,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。
unintelligiblyadv
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In an unintelligible 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。