
adv. 冷峻地
'No, thank you,' she said frostily.
“不,谢谢你。”她冷冰冰地说。
He smiled frostily and deliberately turned away.
他冷冷地笑了笑便故意转身走了。
I don't know who you're talking about, I said frostily.
我不知道你在说什么。
We were speaking of a hypothetical case, I reminded him frostily.
“我们正在谈一个假设的案例。”我冷淡地提醒他。
Britain's prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer responded frostily.
英国首相兼财政大臣反应冷淡。
“frostily”是副词,其含义可从字面和比喻两个层面理解。字面意义指“如霜冻般寒冷地”,常用于描述低温环境或物体表面的物理状态,例如“The window panes were covered frostily overnight”(玻璃窗夜间结满霜花)。在人际交往中,该词引申为“冷淡地”“疏离地”,形容态度或语气的不友善,如“He responded frostily to the proposal”(他对提议反应冷淡),这一用法在《牛津英语词典》中被列为常见比喻义项。
从词源学角度分析,“frostily”由古英语“frost”(霜)加形容词后缀“-y”构成形容词“frosty”,再叠加副词后缀“-ly”形成,词形演变过程在《词源在线词典》中有详细记载。语言学家David Crystal在《英语语言百科全书》中指出,这类由自然现象衍生出的情感隐喻词,在英语中具有强化表达张力的作用。
frostily 是一个副词,以下是其详细解释:
描述态度:
He smiled frostily and deliberately turned away.
(他冷峻地笑了笑,故意转身离开。)
描述语言或语气:
“Come in if you have to,” he said frostily.
(“非进不可的话,就进来吧。”他冷冷地说道。)
如需更多例句或完整词义对比,可参考新东方在线词典或海词词典。
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