- 1激烈地、強硬地、斷然地(否認、反對)。新聞裡最常見的是 vehemently deny「矢口否認」「強烈否認」。書面語,口語會說 strongly。
Vehemently is how you do something when strong feeling is pushing it out — you say it , and you will not be talked out of it. It attaches to verbs of speaking and opposing above all: deny vehemently, vehemently oppose, vehemently disagree, argue vehemently, vehemently reject. In fact 'vehemently deny' is so common that it has become the standard phrase in news reporting whenever someone is accused of something: 'He vehemently denies the allegations.' There is a quiet irony in that phrase — reporters use it to show the person is pushing back hard, while carefully not saying whether the denial is true. It is formal and mostly written; in speech people say 'strongly' or ' denied it'. Word order: it sits before the main verb ('she vehemently opposed it') or after it ('she opposed it vehemently'), and either is fine.
From the word’s history
vehement + -ly.
vehement(激烈的)加 -ly,激烈地。
組成vehement + -ly. The -ly ending is the ordinary way English turns an adjective into an adverb — 'in a vehement way'. So the whole meaning is already in 'vehement'; -ly just changes the job it does in the sentence.
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。
vehementlyadv/ˈviː.ə.məntli/
- 1
In a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude.
- vehemently opposed
- The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
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