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Vociferously means saying what you think in a loud, strong, way. It is an adverb, so it tells you HOW someone speaks, complains, argues, or objects. The picture behind it is a room full of noise: people not just disagreeing, but disagreeing at volume, again and again, so that nobody can pretend they did not hear. It carries the idea of persistence as much as loudness — someone who complains vociferously keeps complaining until people pay attention. It is a formal, written word. You will find it in newspapers, in reports, in news on TV — "local residents vociferously opposed the plan" — but people almost never use it when they are just chatting with friends. In everyday talk we would say "they complained really loudly" or "they made a big fuss about it". A thing to notice: it is not really a compliment or an insult by itself. It can sound brave (standing up loudly for something right) or (a customer shouting in a shop). The context decides. But it usually appears with words about disagreement — object, protest, complain, deny, oppose, argue — much more often than with words about agreement. You can say someone vociferously supported a plan, and it is correct, but that is the rarer half of how the word lives.
大聲疾呼地、激烈地(表達意見);強烈抗議地
組成vociferous(大聲表達意見的)+ -ly(副詞字尾)。vociferous 本身來自拉丁文 vox(聲音)加上 ferre(帶、發出),字面意思是「發出聲音的」。
同家族的字
- voicealso from Latin vox 'voice' — the same root, come into English through French
- vocalfrom Latin vox; 'vocal' also means both 'of the voice' and 'speaking out strongly'
- vocabularyfrom Latin vocare 'to call', close family of vox
- transfershares the Latin ferre 'to carry' that sits in the second half of vociferous
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。
vociferouslyadv
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In a vociferous manner.
- He won that night. All were for him, the lubras vociferously in his favour.
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。