1. 1嚴肅、認真(的態度或程度)

    Seriousness is the quality of being serious — treating something with importance, care, and focus, without joking around. You can talk about the seriousness of a problem (how big or dangerous it really is) or a person's seriousness (their calm, focused, non-joking manner). It's a neutral, common word used in both everyday and formal contexts.

core核心畫面

組成serious + -ness (a state or quality)

同家族的字

  • seriousthe root word — seriousness is the quality of being serious

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。

seriousnessnoun/ˈsɪɹiəsnəs/

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    The state or quality of being serious.

    • “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
    • ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

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