1. 1粗聲粗氣地

    Gruffly tells you how someone speaks: in a rough, short, unfriendly-sounding voice. “He answered gruffly” means the words came out low and blunt, not warm. As with gruff, this often describes the surface, not the heart. A teacher might say gruffly “Sit down” and still care about the class. You will see it in stories and reported speech more than in student essays.

core核心畫面

組成gruff + -ly (makes an adverb: “in that way”).

同家族的字

  • gruffthe adjective this adverb is built from
  • gruffnessthe noun from the same stem

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。

grufflyadv

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    In a gruff manner.

    • He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school.
    • Bradly squatted on the flat rock to wash his legs, saying gruffly to Podson, "Better wash that dam' mud off; it sticks like hell when it's dry."

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