1. 1令人滿意地、讓人感到很欣慰地(不是「感激地」)

    When something happens gratifyingly, it happens in a way that pleases you and makes the result feel worth it. You are not saying thank you — that is gratefully. You are saying the thing itself satisfies you. Writers often put it in front of an adjective to mean “to a pleasing degree”: the test was gratifyingly easy; the room was gratifyingly quiet. It is a little formal. In chat a student would more often say I’m so pleased that… or It went really well. It is about how good something feels, not about gifts or money.

core核心畫面

組成gratifying(讓人滿意的)+ -ly(以那種方式)

同家族的字

  • gratifythe verb: to please or satisfy someone
  • gratifyingthe adjective this adverb is built from
  • gratificationthe noun: the pleasure of getting what you wanted

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。

gratifyinglyadv

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    In a manner that gratifies.

    • The performance was gratifyingly well-attended.
    • [T]hey were available at prices his customers considered gratifyingly reasonable.

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