- 1極好地、非常(帶著讚嘆與愉快的語氣)
'Wonderfully' has two jobs, and they are close but not the same. First, it means 'very well' — 'She sings wonderfully', 'The plan worked wonderfully'. Here it tells you how something was done, and it is warm praise. Second, it works like 'very' in front of an adjective, to push it up high: 'wonderfully clear', 'wonderfully cheap', 'wonderfully quiet'. In this second use the speaker is not only measuring the amount, they are saying they are pleased about it. That is the key: 'wonderfully' always carries good feeling. So 'wonderfully cold' sounds like a happy speaker on a hot day, and 'wonderfully expensive' sounds odd unless you are joking. Though actually — the joking use is real and common. British speakers especially will say 'wonderfully unhelpful' or 'wonderfully bad' when they mean the opposite, and the good word next to the bad one is the signal that they are being dry. The word feels a little more written, a little more polite, than 'really well' or 'super'. In casual speech among young people you would more often hear 'so good' or 'amazing'.
From the word’s history
From Middle English wonderfully; wonderful + -ly.
源自中古英文 wonderfully,就是 wonderful 加上 -ly。
組成'wonderful' + '-ly'. The '-ly' ending is what turns a describing word into a how-it-was-done word. And 'wonderful' is 'wonder' + '-ful' — full of wonder, that is, so good it amazes you.
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。
wonderfullyadv/wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/
- 1
In a wonderful manner.
- He entertained us wonderfully.
- We're so wonderfully, wonderfully / Wonderfully, wonderfully pretty
- 2
In a wonderful manner.
- On a clear night, the Montana sky is wonderfully vast and full of stars.
- It was wonderfully stormy and dark on the night when the ship went down.
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