- 1認真、誠懇（當真、沒在開玩笑的態度）
Earnestness is the noun: the quality of being very serious and sincere. You feel someone’s earnestness when they care a lot and are not playing. It is a fairly formal word; books and teachers like it. In everyday talk, people might just say how serious or sincere someone is. Same family as earnest and earnestly — and still nothing to do with ears.
core核心畫面
組成earnest + -ness. The -ness makes a noun that names the quality.
原始詞典資料1 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。
earnestnessnoun/ˈɝnɪstnəs/
- 1
The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.
- She spoke with great earnestness about the issue.
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