Touchingly describes doing something in a way that makes other people feel a soft, warm sadness — pity, sympathy, tenderness, the feeling that comes just before tears. 'He spoke touchingly about his mother.' 'The letter was touchingly honest.' The emotion it points to is gentle, never violent: not grief that breaks you, but the kind that makes your chest feel full.

Touchingly describes doing somethingtouchingly形容的是做某件事的方式，in a way that makes other people feel a soft, warm sadness那種方式會讓別人心裡湧起一種柔軟、溫暖的感傷——pity, sympathy, tenderness像是憐惜、同情、溫柔的感覺，the feeling that comes just before tears就是快要掉眼淚之前的那種感覺。'He spoke touchingly about his mother.'『He spoke touchingly about his mother.』（他談起媽媽的方式讓人動容）'The letter was touchingly honest.'『The letter was touchingly honest.』（那封信誠實得讓人感動）The emotion it points to is gentle, never violent它指的那種情緒是溫和的，絕不是激烈的：not grief that breaks you不是那種會把你擊垮的悲痛，but the kind that makes your chest feel full而是那種讓你胸口滿滿的感覺。

Very often what makes something touching is that it is small, or plain, or a bit clumsy — a child's badly drawn card, an old man still tending his wife's garden. So writers reach for touchingly when innocence or effort shows through.

Very often what makes something touching通常讓一件事情變得動人的原因，is that it is small, or plain, or a bit clumsy是它很小、很樸素，或有點笨拙——a child's badly drawn card像小孩畫得歪七扭八的卡片，an old man still tending his wife's garden或是一個老先生還在照顧亡妻的花園。So writers reach for touchingly所以作家會選用 touchingly 這個字，when innocence or effort shows through當純真或努力透露出來的時候。

There is a warning inside the word, though. Because the feeling is soft, 'touchingly' can carry a faint note of looking down from above — 'she touchingly believed he would come back' means she was sweet, and she was wrong.

There is a warning inside the word, though不過這個字裡藏著一個提醒。Because the feeling is soft因為這種情緒很柔軟，'touchingly' can carry a faint note of looking down from abovetouchingly有時候會帶著一絲居高臨下的味道——'she touchingly believed he would come back'『she touchingly believed he would come back』（她天真地相信他會回來，讓人心疼），means she was sweet, and she was wrong意思是她很天真，而且她想錯了。

Whether it is pure warmth or gentle pity depends entirely on the sentence around it. The word is a little literary; you meet it in reviews, obituaries and novels more than in talk. In speech people usually just say 'it was really touching'.

Whether it is pure warmth or gentle pity到底是純粹的溫暖，還是帶點居高臨下的憐憫，depends entirely on the sentence around it完全要看前後文而定。The word is a little literary這個字有點文學氣；you meet it in reviews, obituaries and novels你會在書評、訃聞，和小說裡看到它，more than in talk比較少出現在口語裡。In speech people usually just say 'it was really touching'在口語裡大家通常就直接說『it was really touching』。