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Vigilantly is the adverb of vigilant: doing something while watching carefully and continuously for danger or . It tells you how an action is carried out — 'she watched the baby vigilantly', 'the team monitored the system vigilantly through the night'. Because the meaning is about sustained watching, it sits most naturally with verbs of guarding, watching and checking: watch, guard, monitor, patrol, observe, look out. It sounds odd with verbs that have nothing to watch for. It is a formal word and much rarer than 'vigilant' itself; in speech people are far more likely to say 'kept a close eye on' or 'watched carefully'. Position is flexible — usually after the verb or after the object ('guarded the gate vigilantly'), sometimes before the verb ('they vigilantly checked every bag').
警覺地、戒備地
組成vigilant + -ly. The -ly ending is very old: it goes back through Middle English -ly and Old English -līċe to a Germanic word meaning 'body' or 'form' — so originally 'in the form of', which is why -ly turns an adjective into a manner adverb.
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。
vigilantlyadv
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In a vigilant manner.
- He shuffled athwart, keeping one eye ahead vigilantly.
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。