You can picture absolutely as 'with nothing held back, no exception, no halfway' — the dial pushed all the way to the end. From that one feeling of total, no-room-for-doubt fullness come both its plain 'completely' use and its emphatic yes/no replies.

可以想成把刻度盤一口氣推到最底、推到頭:沒有保留、沒有例外、沒有一半。所有用法都從這個「滿到頂、毫無餘地」的感覺長出來——既能表示「完完全全」,也能變成斬釘截鐵的「對!」或「不行!」。

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原始詞典資料4 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。

absolutelyadv/ˈæb.səˌl(j)uːt.li/

  • 1

    In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.

  • 2

    Independently; viewed without relation to other things or factors.

    • Another characteristic of numbers, which does not concern their mutual relations so much as themselves absolutely, is their ability, according to the ideas of Nicomachus, to conform to geometrical arrangements.
  • 3

    As an intensive: extremely, very, indeed.

    • But when it came to posing for publicity pictures they proved absolutely brilliant doing just what came naturally.
    • The strength of the mouse is absolutely spectacular for various kinds of issues, until you find out that the mouse has absolutely no extracellular matrix to speak of in his optic nerve head.

absolutelyintj/ˈæb.səˌl(j)uːt.li/

  • 1

    Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.

    • Is Bob a good teacher? Absolutely!
    • Do you want a free cookie with that coffee? Absolutely!

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。