- 1以不同的方式；（不同的人）各自地、分別地。常見於「有人說…有人說…」的書面語氣，如 variously described as = 有人形容為…有人形容為…
In several different ways, or by several different people. It very often appears when different people give different names, numbers, or opinions about the same thing: 'the illness has been variously called flu, a cold, and food poisoning' means different people called it different things. Two common patterns are worth learning as whole phrases: 'variously described as…' and 'variously known as…'. It can also mean 'at different times' or 'in different places' — 'the price has been variously $10, $12 and $15' — but the 'different people, different labels' use is by far the most common. There is a second, quieter use meaning 'in many different ways' with no comparison: 'the money was variously spent'. This is a formal, written word. You meet it in news writing, history books, and reports; almost nobody says it while chatting. In speech, people just say 'in different ways' or 'people call it all sorts of things'. Because it usually points to disagreement, it often carries a small hint that nobody is quite sure of the truth — a careful writer's way of saying 'sources don't agree'.
From the word’s history
From various + -ly.
various（各種的）加 -ly，意思是「以各種方式」。
組成various ('of many different kinds') + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb, telling you HOW something is done). 'Various' itself goes back to Latin varius, 'changing, spotted, of different kinds'.
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。
variouslyadv
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In various ways; diversely.
- My caravan served variously as a changing room, office and bedroom.
- Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.
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