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Vaguely means "not clearly" or "a little, but not completely" — you might feel "vaguely " (a small, unclear feeling of worry) or find someone "vaguely familiar" (you feel you might know them, but you're not sure why). It's also used when someone talks without giving real details — "he vaguely explained what happened" means the explanation was unclear on purpose or by accident.
模糊地;隱約地
組成vague + -ly (turns the adjective into an adverb — describing HOW something is done or felt).
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- vaguethe base adjective — vaguely is just the adverb form
原始詞典資料2 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。
vaguelyadv/ˈveɪɡli/
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In a vague manner.
- He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.
- The youth pointed vaguely. "Over there," he replied.
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Loosely; more or less; somewhat.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
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。