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Wheezily describes an action done while making that rough, whistling, struggling sound in the throat or chest that comes when someone cannot breathe easily — the sound of asthma, a bad cold, heavy smoking, or an old person climbing . It is an adverb, so it goes with a verb: he breathed wheezily, she laughed wheezily, the old dog snored wheezily. It is not a common word; you meet it mostly in novels and descriptive writing, where a writer wants you to hear the person. In ordinary speech people say it the long way — "He was breathing with a wheeze" or "you could hear him wheezing". Writers also stretch it beyond people: an old engine, a pipe organ, an air-conditioner or an accordion can all be described as working wheezily, meaning it sounds tired and short of breath. There is a gentle comic edge to the word — it often makes something sound old and worn out rather than seriously ill.
(呼吸、說話時)帶著喘鳴聲地、呼哧呼哧地(氣喘、感冒時胸口那種咻咻聲)
組成wheeze(喘鳴、呼吸有咻咻聲)+ -y(形容詞字尾,變成 wheezy)+ -ly(副詞字尾)。You can see the three steps: the noun/verb wheeze, then wheezy meaning 'full of wheezing', then wheezily meaning 'in a wheezy way'. The verb wheeze itself is an old northern word, probably from Old Norse, and it imitates the sound.
同家族的字
- wheezethe base word — the sound itself, and the verb
- wheezythe adjective this adverb is made from
- wheezinessthe noun from the same wheezy
- noisilysame -ily adverb pattern: noisy → noisily
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。
wheezilyadv
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In a wheezy manner.
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。