喜樂美語
  1. 1rC1/ˈsʌmwʌt/ · /ˈsʌmwɒt/有點 / 稍微

    正式More than a little but not very; used to make an adjective or statement softer or less strong.

    More than a little比一點點還多, but not very但不算非常; used to make an adjective or statement用來讓一個形容詞或一句話 softer or less strong變得比較委婉、沒那麼強烈

    示範例句 · Example

    The test was somewhat harder than I expected.

    逐字這個考試比我預期的還要稍微難一點。

    「somewhat」放在形容詞前面，表示「有一點，但沒到很」的程度，比 a little 正式。很多時候英文用它是為了說得客氣一點——其實情況比字面更嚴重、更大，只是不想講太白，就用 somewhat 緩一下（somewhat higher 常常是「其實高不少」）。這個字偏書面、正式。

    常見搭配

    • somewhat higher/larger/harder etc

      稍微高一點／大一點等

      a little higher, larger, etc, but not very

      Prices this year are somewhat higher than before.

    • somewhat surprised

      有點驚訝

      a little surprised

      I was somewhat surprised by her answer.

    • somewhat different

      有點不同

      a little different

      Their opinions were somewhat different.

    • somewhat unusual

      有點不尋常

      a little strange or not common

      The building has a somewhat unusual shape.

    意思相近

    slightlyratherfairlya littlemoderatelya bit

    意思相反

    veryextremely

core核心畫面

Picture a dial being turned down a notch: the statement is still true, but the speaker has taken some of the force out of it on purpose. Somewhat is that notch — it moves a word off "very" without dropping it to "not at all".

可以想成：一個旋鈕被刻意往回轉了一格——話還是那句話，但說話的人把力道收了一點。somewhat 就是那一格。它把一個形容詞從「很」往下移，但沒有移到「完全不」。用它的人多半是在保留餘地，或是不想把話講死，這種分寸感正是它常出現在書面語的原因。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

意思相近

slightlyratherfairlya littlemoderatelya bit

意思相反

veryextremely

原始詞典資料5 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。

somewhatadv/ˈsʌmwɒt/

  • 1

    To a limited extent or degree; not completely.

    • The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
    • The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
  • 2

    Very.

    • That hat seems somewhat small for him.
    • Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten […]

somewhatpron/ˈsʌmwɒt/

  • 1

    archaicSomething.

    • Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]
    • a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.

somewhatnoun/ˈsʌmwɒt/

  • 1

    A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

    • Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
    • To these ladies a man often recommends himself while he is commending another woman; and, while he is expressing ardour and generous sentiments for his mistress, they are considering what a charming lover this man would make to them, who can feel all this tenderness for an inferior degree of merit. Of this, strange as it may seem, I have seen many instances besides Mrs Fitzpatrick, to whom all this really happened, and who now began to feel a somewhat for Mr Jones, the symptoms of which she much sooner understood than poor Sophia had formerly done.
  • 2

    A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

    • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.
    • Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat. What am I?

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