Picture a ball coming towards you: someone has said something, written something, done something, and now it is your turn. Reply can be thought of as sending it straight back to the same person — the answer travels back down the line it came from. That is why a reply always has a : you reply to a letter, to a question, to a person, never just into the air.
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原始詞典資料8 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。
replyverb/ɹɪˈplaɪ/
- 1
To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
- (intransitive) Please reply to my letter.
- (transitive) "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.
- 2
To act or gesture in response.
- Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
- It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire[…]
- 3
To repeat something back; to echo.
replynoun/ɹɪˈplaɪ/
- 1
A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
- For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle ‘Why are you here?’ And the reply took three years.
- 2
Something given in reply.
- 3
A counterattack.
- 4
entertainmentlifestylemusicThe answer of a figure.
- 5
lawA document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
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