One way to hold it: you step back from something and let your view take in the whole width of it. You are not looking closely at any one part — you are seeing how far it stretches from side to side.
你往後退一步，讓視線把整個東西的「寬度」一次收進來。你不盯著任何一個角落看，只看它從這頭到那頭有多寬。broad 本來就是「寬」——很多東西橫著攤開在你眼前；加上 -ly 變成 broadly，就是「用一種把寬度整個看進去的方式」去說話、去笑、去涵蓋。從這個畫面往外長，就分出兩條路：一條是「範圍寬」（大致上、廣泛地），另一條是把「寬」放回一張臉上（嘴角咧得很開）。
From the word’s history
broad (Old English brād, 'wide') + -ly; the adverb keeps the width of the adjective.
broadly 就是 broad（古英語 brād，「寬的」）加上副詞字尾 -ly。字源上沒有任何轉折，這個字從頭到尾就是把「寬」變成一種做事的方式，所以現代所有意思都還能回到「寬」這張圖上。
Wiktionary — broadly (broad + -ly; broad < Old English brād)
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原始詞典資料2 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。
broadlyadv/ˈbɹɔːdli/
- 1
Widely and openly.
- [W]hen he caught sight of her running towards him like that, he smiled broadly.
- 2
Broadly speaking; in a wide manner; liberally; in a loose sense.
- All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region.
- While companies are bravely talking about their efforts to redress the gender pay gap (large employers will be compelled to report details of how they pay their male and female staff in April), we know that women are, on average, much worse paid than men throughout the City. Broadly, power remains in men’s hands.
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。