喜樂美語
  1. 1rB2/ˈɡreɪtli/大大地；非常

    正式very much, or by a large amount — used before a verb or a past participle to make it stronger, as in greatly increased, greatly , or greatly appreciated.

    示範例句 · Example

    The number of birds in the park has greatly increased since the new trees were planted.

    逐字自從新的樹被種下之後，公園裡鳥的數量已經大大地增加了。

    「greatly」就是「很多、程度很大」，通常寫在動詞或過去分詞前面，把那個「動作或變化」放大：greatly increased（大幅增加）、greatly improved（大幅改善）、greatly appreciated（非常感謝）。可以想成它是從 great（大）長出來的——把「大」加在事情的變化量上。要注意它的用法位置：greatly 用在動詞、過去分詞前（The cost has greatly increased），一般形容詞前面則是用 very（very big、very happy）。它的語氣偏正式，常出現在文章、公告、道謝信裡；朋友聊天時大家多半說 a lot 或 really。

    常見搭配

    • greatly increased / greatly reduced

      大幅增加／大幅減少

      made much bigger or much smaller

      The cost of the repairs has greatly increased this year.

    • greatly appreciated

      非常感謝；不勝感激

      thanked for very much

      All offers of help will be greatly appreciated.

    • vary greatly

      差異很大

      to be very different from one another

      The size of the pumpkins varies greatly.

    • benefit greatly from something

      從某事得到很大的好處

      to get a lot of good things from something

      Leo benefited greatly from his art class.

    • differ greatly

      非常不同

      to be very different

      Modern classrooms differ greatly from those of fifty years ago.

    • greatly improved

      大幅改善

      made much better

      Aisha's writing has greatly improved since September.

core核心畫面

Think of it as taking the size in 'great' and moving it off the thing and onto the change: not a great amount of something, but a change that happened by a great amount. It sits in front of the verb — greatly increased, greatly , greatly appreciated — and its job is to say the movement was big.

可以想成把 great 的「大」從東西身上移到「變化」身上：不是「很大的一份東西」，而是「變動的幅度很大」。它站在動詞前面，像替那個動作加上一個放大的手勢——greatly increased 是漲了一大截，greatly improved 是進步了一大段，greatly appreciated 是這份感謝的份量很重。留意它偏書面、正式，出現在報告、致詞、公告裡比日常對話多；朋友之間講話多半會換成 a lot 或 really。

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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。

greatlyadv/ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/

  • 1

    To a great extent or degree.

    • Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.
    • He was more greatly beloved than anyone in living memory.
  • 2

    archaicNobly; magnanimously.

    • His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome.
    • But all this our fisher, who was neither a poet, nor a dependent, did not know, so he concluded, that all who were truly great, were truly greatly minded, and noble in soul, as they were exalted by birth, and rich in splendour.

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