A hand that does not slow down. Care is the extra attention you pay before you act — checking, adjusting, watching where the cup goes. Take that attention away and the action still happens, just without the pause. Everything this word does comes from that missing pause: sometimes the cup breaks, sometimes the hair falls beautifully, sometimes the danger is simply not looked at.

一隻不放慢的手。care 是你動手前多花的那一份注意力——先確認、先調整、先看好杯子要放哪裡。把那份注意力抽掉,動作照樣完成,只是中間少了停頓那一拍。這個字的每個用法都是從「少了那一拍」長出來的:有時候杯子就摔了,有時候頭髮反而落得好看,有時候只是根本沒去看那個危險。

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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。

carelesslyadv/ˈkɛɹləsli/

  • 1

    Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly.

    • The papers were carelessly strewn on the table.
    • Let us try to imagine the qualms of some Fifth Avenue florist if he could but see so many potential boutonnières, at a dollar apiece, so carelessly heaped up in baskets, lining the dingy pavement.
  • 2

    Done without care or attention; inattentively.

    • Distracted by the salesperson, he carelessly read the contract.

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