delightfully + adjective
delightfully 常放在形容词前作程度修饰,表示“令人愉快地,宜人地”,相当于 pleasantly。
The evening breeze was delightfully cool.
傍晚的微风凉爽宜人。
令人愉快地;宜人地;惬意地
先理解核心含义,再看它在真实句子里的用法。
令人愉快地;宜人地;惬意地
in a delightful manner; in a way that gives pleasure or enjoyment
The evening breeze was delightfully cool.
傍晚的微风凉爽宜人。
令人愉快地;令人高兴地
In a delightful manner.
The cottage was delightfully warm when we arrived.
我们到达时,小屋里温暖宜人。
She sang delightfully at the party.
她在聚会上唱得令人愉悦。
The path through the woods was delightfully peaceful.
穿过树林的小路幽静宜人。
delightfully 常放在形容词前作程度修饰,表示“令人愉快地,宜人地”,相当于 pleasantly。
The evening breeze was delightfully cool.
傍晚的微风凉爽宜人。
作方式状语修饰动词时,通常放在动词之后,描述动作带有令人愉悦的意味。
The children laughed delightfully at the clown.
孩子们看到小丑时开心地笑了。
与过去分词连用通常出现在被动语态或系表结构中,表示事物状态令人愉悦。
The table was delightfully decorated for the party.
餐桌为聚会装饰得赏心悦目。
Not this
The cake tastes delightfully.
Use this
The cake tastes delightful.
tastes 是系动词,后面应接形容词作表语,表示主语的性质;delightfully 是副词,不能跟在系动词后修饰主语,应改用形容词 delightful。
Not this
He delightfully accepted the invitation.
Use this
He gladly accepted the invitation.
delightfully 意为“以令人愉快的方式”,强调动作给他人带来的感受;若要表达“欣然、乐意地”做某事,应使用 gladly 或 happily。
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简单宜人;简洁而令人愉快
The recipe is delightfully simple.
这道食谱简单宜人。
清爽宜人;提神悦心
The drink was delightfully refreshing on a hot day.
这种饮料在热天喝起来清爽宜人。
古怪而讨喜;别致有趣
The film's delightfully quirky characters won over the audience.
影片中古怪而讨喜的角色赢得了观众的喜爱。
妙趣横生;愉快有趣
Her speech was delightfully entertaining.
她的演讲妙趣横生。
芳香宜人
The garden was delightfully fragrant after the rain.
雨后花园芳香宜人。
与众不同而令人愉快;别具一格
The bakery's delightfully different pastries draw a crowd every morning.
这家面包店别具一格、令人愉快的糕点每天早上都吸引大批顾客。
真是令人愉快地调皮啊,西摩。
In the 'Steamed Hams' scene from The Simpsons, Superintendent Chalmers calls the dish 'delightfully devilish.'
在《辛普森一家》的“蒸火腿”片段中,督学查尔默斯称这道菜“令人愉快地调皮”。
Use delightfully naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
delightfully可拆为delight(高兴)+fully(满满地):满满的高兴,即“令人愉快地”。记住这个词,如阳光洒满心间。
语域:neutral 常见场景:书评或影评、游记或散文、日常交流中的评价 delightfully 是副词,意为“令人愉快地;宜人地”。它通常多用于书面或较正式的表达,日常口语中也可使用,但会带一点文雅色彩;口语里也可以用 really 等词来表达类似意思。
Among these words, frightfully /ˈfraɪtfəli/ and rightfully /ˈraɪtfəli/ are true rhymes with delightfully /dɪˈlaɪtfəli/. Lightly and brightly share the spelling pattern -ight (pronounced /aɪt/) but end in /li/ instead of /fəli/, so they are lookalikes, not rhymes. Hopefully and beautifully share the written suffix -fully (/fəli/) with delightfully but have different stressed vowels, so they do not rhyme.
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