1. 1rB1/ˈlʌkəli/幸好;幸虧

    Used to say that it is a good thing something happened or was done, because without it the situation would have been unpleasant or difficult.

    示範例句 · Example

    It rained hard all morning, but luckily the school trip was in the afternoon.

    逐字整個早上雨下得很大,但幸好校外教學是在下午。

    「luckily」是一個管整句話的副詞,通常放在句首加逗號,或接在 but 後面。它說的不是「某人運氣好」,而是「還好有這件事,不然就麻煩了」——所以每個 luckily 的句子背後,都藏著一個沒有發生的壞結果。可以想成:luck(沒計畫到的好事)長出 lucky(幸運的),再加 -ly 之後它就跳出動詞的位置,替整句話講話,變成說話的人對事情結果的評語。fortunately 意思幾乎一樣,只是比較正式、比較常出現在文章裡。

    常見搭配

    • luckily for somebody

      對某人來說很幸運的是…

      used to say who was saved from trouble by the good thing that happened

      Luckily for me, the little shop by the station was still open.

    • but luckily ...

      但幸好…

      used after describing a problem, to introduce the thing that saved it

      The bus was full, but luckily two seats were free at the back.

    • luckily, no one was hurt

      幸好沒有人受傷

      used to say that a small accident happened but nobody was harmed

      A shelf fell down in the classroom, but luckily no one was hurt.

    • luckily ... in time

      幸好…及時

      used to say that something good happened before it was too late

      Luckily, Dad found my lost water bottle in time for the trip.

    • luckily it worked out

      幸好最後結果還不錯

      used to say that a difficult situation ended well

      Our first plan didn't work, but luckily it worked out in the end.

    意思相反

    unluckilyunfortunatelysadlyregrettably

core核心畫面

You can think of it as the speaker back and pointing at one thing that saved the situation. It doesn't describe how someone did something — it comments on the whole story: things could easily have gone badly, and this one detail is why they didn't.

可以想成說話的人往後退一步,指著某一件事說「還好有它」。它不是在形容動作怎麼做,而是在替整件事下註腳:事情本來很可能會很糟,而就是這個細節讓它沒有變糟。

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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。

luckilyadv/ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/

  • 1

    In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately.

    • They luckily escaped injury.

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