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    Visibly means 'in a way you can actually see'. It is nearly always used about a person's feelings showing on the outside: visibly angry, visibly upset, visibly nervous, visibly relieved. The point is that the feeling was not hidden — anyone in the room could tell just by looking.

    Visibly means 'in a way you can actually see'visibly 的意思是『用一種你真的看得出來的方式』。 It is nearly always used about a person's feelings showing on the outside它幾乎都是用在一個人的情緒表現在外表上: visibly angry, visibly upset, visibly nervous, visibly relievedvisibly angry明顯生氣、visibly upset明顯難過、visibly nervous明顯緊張、visibly relieved明顯鬆一口氣。 The point is that the feeling was not hidden重點在於,那份情緒並沒有被藏起來—— anyone in the room could tell just by looking房間裡的任何人光用看的就看得出來。

    So it does two jobs at once. It says how the person felt, and it says that this was on display. 'He was visibly shaking' is stronger than 'he was shaking', because it puts a witness in the picture: I could see it, and so could you.

    So it does two jobs at once所以它同時做了兩件事。 It says how the person felt, and it says that this was on display它說出這個人的感受是什麼,也說出這份感受是攤在外面讓人看到的。 'He was visibly shaking' is stronger than 'he was shaking'『He was visibly shaking』他明顯在發抖比『he was shaking』他在發抖語氣更強, because it puts a witness in the picture因為它把一個『目擊者』放進了畫面裡: I could see it, and so could you我看得到,你也看得到。

    It sits most often in front of an adjective (visibly tired) or a verb like flinched, relaxed, stiffened, brightened. It is a little more formal than everyday chatting — you meet it a lot in news reports and novels, where the writer wants to report only what could be observed rather than claim to know what was inside someone's head. A reporter cannot say 'the minister was furious', but can safely say 'the minister was visibly furious'.

    It sits most often in front of an adjective (visibly tired) or a verb like flinched, relaxed, stiffened, brightened它最常出現在形容詞前面(visibly tired明顯很累),或是像 flinched畏縮、relaxed放鬆、stiffened僵住、brightened開朗起來這類動詞前面。 It is a little more formal than everyday chatting它比日常聊天稍微正式一點—— you meet it a lot in news reports and novels你會在新聞報導和小說裡常常遇到它, where the writer wants to report only what could be observed rather than claim to know what was inside someone's head因為作者只想報告看得到的東西,而不是宣稱自己知道某人腦子裡在想什麼。 A reporter cannot say 'the minister was furious'一個記者不能說『部長很生氣』, but can safely say 'the minister was visibly furious'但可以放心地說『部長 visibly(明顯地)很生氣』。

    It can also mean simply ', by an amount you can see', about a change: 'the queue was visibly shorter by noon'.

    It can also mean simply 'noticeably, by an amount you can see', about a change它也可以單純用來說一個變化,意思是『明顯地、看得出一個幅度』: 'the queue was visibly shorter by noon'『the queue was visibly shorter by noon』到中午的時候,隊伍明顯短了。

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組成visible ('able to be seen') + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb. Visible itself comes from Latin videre 'to see'.

同家族的字

  • visiblevisibly is just visible + -ly
  • visionboth from Latin videre, to see
  • invisiblein- 'not' + visible — cannot be seen
  • videoLatin video, 'I see' — same root

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。

visiblyadv/ˈvɪz.ə.bli/

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    In a visible manner; openly.

    • He was visibly upset while reading the news live on air about the school shooting.
    • Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。