1. 1冷淡地;冷冰冰地

    If you say something icily, or look at someone icily, you do it in an angry or very way. The feeling is like ice: no warmth, no smile, a sharp distance. It is not about the weather, and it is not about real ice in a glass. You most often use it of a voice, a look, a smile that is not really kind, or a short answer that shuts someone out. It comes from icy + -ly. The word is at home in stories and in fairly careful English; in very casual talk people may just say , or “in a cold voice”. For actual cold roads or air, you say it is icy, or it is freezing — not icily.

core核心畫面

組成icy + -ly.

同家族的字

  • icythe adjective underneath; icily is icy + -ly
  • icethe cold picture the unfriendly manner is compared to

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。

icilyadv/ˈaɪ.sɪ.li/

  • 1

    In the manner of ice; with a cold or chilling effect.

    • The cold Alpine air flowed icily into his car, so he stopped by the roadside to put on a leather trench-coat, thick scarf, and woollen hat[…]
  • 2

    In an uncaring or coolly angry manner.

    • […]quite often her husband and Jo did not eat at home, or sat icily silent through a meal.
    • Bond had pulled her head back by her hair and had kissed her once, long and cruelly. Then he had told her to go to sleep and had leant back and waited icily for his body to leave him alone.

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