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The adverb of unprecedented: to a degree never reached before. It nearly always sits in front of an adjective, and almost always one of size or amount — unprecedentedly high prices, unprecedentedly low temperatures, unprecedentedly large crowds. That is because "never before" is easiest to prove about numbers, so this is the sense of the parent word that survives into the adverb. It can also modify a verb ("the market unprecedentedly closed early"), but that use is rarer and reads as heavy. This is a long, formal, written word — you meet it in research papers, economic reports and serious journalism, and hardly ever in speech, partly because six is a mouthful. Even good writers often step around it and say "higher than ever before" instead, which is shorter and lands harder. If you are choosing, that plain version is usually the better choice; keep unprecedentedly for formal writing where the compact form is worth its weight.
空前地、史無前例地。多半接在形容詞前面,例如 unprecedentedly high 就是「高到前所未有」。中文其實不太用這種副詞句型,寫成「高到史上最高」「創下歷史新高」反而自然。
組成unprecedented + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb. Inside that: un- (not) + precedent (earlier case) + -ed.
同家族的字
- unprecedentedthe adjective this is built directly on
- precedentthe root noun — an earlier case to point back to
- precedefrom Latin praecedere, to go before
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。
unprecedentedlyadv
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In an unprecedented manner; without precedent.
- The next day was fine, but after that the weather was unprecedentedly bad, considering that it ought to have been the dry monsoon.
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。