喜樂美語

Picture something carried all the way through with nothing left over — everything that had to be done is done, and there is no gap to point at. Two roads run out of that picture. Talking about quality, it means done ; used just to press a word harder, it means completely, one hundred per cent. So 'She sang perfectly' and 'It's perfectly normal' are both running on the same sense of full-to-the-top.

perfectly 可以想成「一件事被做到底、一點沒剩」的畫面：該做的都做了，挑不出缺口。從這個畫面看得出兩條路——如果講的是品質，就是「做得完美、無可挑剔」；如果只是要加強語氣，就是「完完全全、百分之百」。所以 She sang perfectly（她唱得很完美）和 It's perfectly normal（這完全正常）用的其實是同一個「滿到頂」的感覺。

From the word’s history

From Latin perficere 'to accomplish, finish, complete' — per- 'completely' + facere 'to make, do', literally 'to make completely'. The 'complete' half is what later gave English the intensifier use, as in 'a perfect stranger'.

來自拉丁文 perficere（完成、做完），由 per-（完全地）＋ facere（做）組成，字面就是「做到完全」。「完成」這一半後來在英文裡長成了加強語氣的用法（例如 a perfect stranger＝完全不認識的人）——所以「完美地」和「完全地」不是兩個不相干的意思，是同一個「做到滿」的兩種走向。

Etymonline, https://www.etymonline.com/word/perfect

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意思相反

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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。

perfectlyadv/ˈpɜː.fɪk(t).li/

  • 1

    With perfection.

    • They completed the first series perfectly.
  • 2

    Wholly, completely, totally.

    • Their performance was perfectly fine.
    • The Gentiles would not perfectly relinquish all their Idols; so, they were persuaded to turne the Image of Jupiter with his thunderbolt to Christus crucifixus, and Venus and Cupid to the Madonna and her Babe.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。