1. 1無聲地、悄無聲息地

    Noiselessly means “without making any sound” when you are talking about how someone does a thing. A cat may walk noiselessly. A person may close a door noiselessly so a baby stays asleep. Like noiseless, it belongs more to stories and careful description than to everyday chat, where people say quietly or without a sound. Quietly still allows a little sound; noiselessly claims none. It is not a word about a person’s nature — it is about one action, done with no noise.

core核心畫面

組成From noiseless + -ly (the ending that turns a describing word into a how-word).

同家族的字

  • noiselessthe describing word this is built from
  • noisethe sound that is not made
  • noisythe opposite idea, from the same noise

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。

noiselesslyadv

  • 1

    In a quiet manner, without any noise.

    • Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.
    • Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground--a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.

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