喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈædvɜːrb/ · /ˈædvɜːb/副詞

    a word that adds to the meaning of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a whole sentence — for example 'slowly' in 'He ran slowly', 'very' in 'It's very hot', and 'naturally' in 'Naturally, we want you to come'.

    示範例句 · Example

    Ms. Chen asked us to find every adverb in the poem.

    逐字陳老師要我們找出這首詩裡的每一個副詞。

    adverb（副詞）是「加上去、把意思講得更清楚」的字。它可以加在動詞上（He ran slowly：怎麼跑）、加在形容詞上（It's very hot：多熱）、加在另一個副詞上（quite quickly：多快）、也可以放在整句話前面（Naturally, we want you to come：說話的人怎麼看這件事）。這個名字可以想成是從 ad-（to，加上去）＋ verb（word）長出來的：一個「加到別的字旁邊」的字；它最早是加在動詞上，後來同樣的工作也做到形容詞、副詞和整個句子上。要分辨的話，adverb 常回答 how／when／where／how much，adjective（形容詞）則是說明「什麼樣的人事物」。

    常見搭配

    • an adverb of time

      時間副詞

      an adverb that says when something happens

      'Yesterday' is an adverb of time.

    • an adverb of place

      地方副詞

      an adverb that says where something happens

      'Outside' is an adverb of place in 'The children played outside.'

    • a sentence adverb

      句子副詞

      an adverb that adds meaning to a whole sentence, not just one word

      In 'Luckily, nobody was late,' the word 'luckily' is a sentence adverb.

    • adverbs and adjectives

      副詞和形容詞

      the two word classes that learners most often mix up

      Today we're learning the difference between adverbs and adjectives.

    • form an adverb from an adjective

      由形容詞變成副詞

      to make an adverb by changing an adjective, usually by adding -ly

      You form an adverb from an adjective by adding -ly: quiet → quietly.

core核心畫面

You can picture an adverb as a word that stands beside another word and adjusts it — it tells you how, when, where, or how much. 'He ran' becomes 'He ran slowly'; 'hot' becomes 'very hot'. The adverb never carries the main action or the main thing; it turns the dial on something already there.

可以想成：副詞是站在別的字旁邊、負責「調整」的那個字。它不講事情本身，而是講事情怎麼發生——多快、多久、在哪裡、到什麼程度。He ran 只是「他跑」，加上 slowly 就變成「他慢慢地跑」；hot 是「熱」，加上 very 就變成「很熱」。它常常黏在動詞身上，但也可以修飾形容詞、修飾另一個副詞，甚至站在句首調整整句話的語氣（Naturally, we want you to come）。一個想法是：副詞是句子裡的旋鈕，本體不變，但被它轉過之後感覺就不一樣了。

同家族的字

複數 adverbs

原始詞典資料3 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。

adverbnoun/ˈæd.vɜːb/

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.

    • manner adverb
    • 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
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    computingengineeringmathematicsIn the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.

adverbverb/ˈæd.vɜːb/

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    rareTo make into or become an adverb.

    • Considering these postpositional phrases to be adverbed phrases would be an insufficient analysis, since the postpositions are determined by the verb.
    • Even if, in the case of native speakers of English in particular, bonded adverbed verbs are always understood and used as entities, the different stages of théir formation are probably those I have just described.

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