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The adverb of 'wry'. It tells you how someone did something — with that half-smiling, self-mocking manner of a person who knows the situation is bad but has decided to see the funny side of it.
The adverb of 'wry'是'wry'的副詞形式。It它 tells you how someone did something告訴你某人做某件事的方式 with that half-smiling, self-mocking manner帶著那種半笑、自嘲的樣子 of a person那是一種人 who knows the situation is bad明知道情況很糟 but has decided但還是決定 to see the funny side of it看到裡面好笑的一面
It goes with verbs of face and voice above all: smile wryly, grin wryly, laugh wryly, say something wryly, observe wryly, note wryly, add wryly.
It它 goes with verbs of face and voice above all主要搭配跟表情、聲音有關的動詞 smile wrylysmile wryly（苦笑） grin wrylygrin wryly（咧嘴苦笑） laugh wrylylaugh wryly（苦笑出聲） say something wrylysay something wryly（苦笑著說） observe wrylyobserve wryly（苦笑著說出觀察） note wrylynote wryly（苦笑著提到） add wrylyadd wryly（苦笑著補充）
In novels and news writing it is a favourite tag after a quoted line — 'At least the rain is free,' he said wryly — and it is doing real work there, because it tells the reader not to take the line as a straight complaint. The tone underneath is dry and quiet, never a big laugh, and often the speaker is laughing at themselves.
In novels and news writing在小說和新聞寫作裡 it它 is a favourite tag是常用的標記 after a quoted line接在引述的話後面 'At least the rain is free,' he said wryly『至少雨是不用錢的』他苦笑著說 and而且 it is doing real work there它在那裡真的有作用 because因為 it tells the reader它告訴讀者 not to take the line as a straight complaint不要把那句話當成直接的抱怨。The tone underneath底下的語氣 is dry and quiet是乾乾的、安靜的 never a big laugh從不是放聲大笑 and而且 often the speaker常常說話的人 is laughing at themselves是在笑自己
Position: usually right after the verb, or at the end of the clause.
Position位置 usually right after the verb通常就在動詞後面 or或者 at the end of the clause在子句的最後
組成wry + -ly. The '-ly' is the ordinary English ending that turns an adjective into an adverb (slow → slowly); it goes back through Middle English '-ly' and Old English '-līċe' to a Germanic word meaning 'body, form' — so originally 'in the form of'. 'wry' itself means twisted, from Old English 'wrīġian' (to turn, to twist).
原始詞典資料2 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。
wrylyadv/ˈɹaɪli/
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In a wry or sarcastic manner; ironically.
- The sins of the father, she thought wryly. Well, they had visited Tony, all right—only he didn't know it.
- ‘The king is displeased with it, but he has to be patient,’ Chapuys wryly commented.
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Of a facial expression, contortedly.
- It was Joe, who had taken the gloves when the wicket-keeper went on to bowl. Mike grinned, wryly but gratefully.
- “Only your Virginie,” she laughed. “Virginie enough,” he smiled wryly. “No, I don’t want her either.”
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。