1. 1小心翼翼地、提防地、戒備地(因為覺得可能有危險或有詐)

    Warily describes doing something in a careful, watchful way, because you think there might be danger or a trick. It is the adverb of wary. Picture someone into a dark room slowly, hands out, ready to go back — that is moving warily. Two ideas live inside it at once: care, and a reason for the care. You are not careful because you are polite or neat; you are careful because something might hurt you or fool you. That is what separates it from "carefully". You can walk warily, watch someone warily, and also agree, answer, or smile warily — meaning you did it, but you kept your guard up. It goes very naturally with verbs of looking and moving: eye someone warily, approach warily, tread warily. "Tread warily" is a set phrase meaning "be careful in a situation where you could easily cause trouble", often about words rather than feet. The feeling is watchful, not . A person who is warily doing something is still doing it — they have not run away.

組成wary + -ly. The -ly ending turns an adjective into an adverb — it tells you HOW something is done. Note the spelling change: wary ends in -y, so the y becomes i before -ly: wary → warily.

同家族的字

  • warythe adjective this comes from — careful because of possible danger
  • warinessthe noun form of the same word
  • awareshares the old root meaning watchful, on guard
  • bewarethe same old root — literally be watchful

原始詞典資料2 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。

warilyadv

  • 1

    In a careful and guarded manner, especially to avoid potential danger or harm.

    • She walked through the dark alley, warily glancing around to make sure she wasn't being followed.
    • That her little Tarzan could destroy a great bull gorilla she knew to be improbable, and so, as she neared the spot from which the sounds of the struggle had come, she moved more warily and at last slowly and with extreme caution she traversed the lowest branches, peering eagerly into the moon- splashed blackness for a sign of the combatants.
  • 2

    Without trust; in a manner showing a lack of trust.

    • He listened to the salesman's pitch warily, sensing a potential scam.
    • East and West still eye each other warily across the sea, but the Cold War has begun to melt.

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