- 1猶豫地、遲疑地
If you do something hesitantly, you do it in a slow, careful, not-quite-sure way — often because you are nervous, or you do not really want to. It does not mean you refused. It means your voice or your body shows the doubt while you still go ahead: she spoke hesitantly; he reached hesitantly for the door. Everyday word; nothing fancy. It is simply the adverb from .
core核心畫面
組成hesitant + -ly (in that manner). From hesitant + -ly.
同家族的字
- hesitantthe adjective this adverb is built from
- hesitatethe verb; same Latin root
- hesitationthe common noun
- hesitancythe more formal noun for the same mood
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。
hesitantlyadv
- 1
With hesitation.
- The sounds from Barb's clarinet began to take the shape of a melody, played quietly at first, hesitantly, with a misblown note here and there.
- It approaches irrefusably, hesitantly, terrible as fate, the great task and question: how shall the earth as a whole be managed? (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885)
- 2
With reluctance.
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