thusly
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
thus + -ly，可追溯回19世紀，可能是教育水平高的寫作家為了嘲諷假裝斯文但沒文化的人而造的詞，[1]主要是嘲諷認為thus並非副詞的錯誤觀念。
發音[編輯]
副詞[編輯]
thusly (不可比)
- (官方不推薦) 這樣，由此，從而
- 近義詞： thus
- 1865, Hingston (ed.), Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons:
- Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!
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- 1866, Petroleum V. Nasby, Life of Androo Johnson
- His course can only be akkounted for thusly:
- 1866, Harper's Magazine,
- He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"
- 1893, Isabel Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton KCMG, FRGS, 卷 II:
- Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.
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- 1995 December, John P. Wiley Jr, quoting Edward R. Harrison, Smithsonian Magazine:
- The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."
- 1996, Charles Harding, High Rise Dwelling[1]:
- Going thusly, unwillingly at the bell,
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- Answering the call to recycle my time.
用法說明[編輯]
雖然thusly已經滲透到了大眾使用中，但一些人可能會認為這是錯誤用詞。其可以使用thus、this way等詞代替。[1]其起源於美國東部，且相比英式英語，在美式英語中更加常見，其「常用來取樂或表達諷刺反語」（「often used for amusement or to make an ironic point」）[2]
參考資料[編輯]
- OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 thusly 的釋義
- (thusly*1000), thus at Google Ngram Viewer
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition (Accessed 2012-01-13)
- ↑ Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (2003).