| 释义 |
drolly, adv.|ˈdrəʊllɪ|
[f. droll a. + -ly2.]
In a droll manner; funnily; quaintly, oddly.
1662Pepys Diary 5 Nov., Jane..did answer me so humbly and drolly about it. 1791Boswell Johnson 17 May an. 1775, Tom Davies described it [Johnson's laugh] drolly enough: ‘He laughs like a rhinoceros’. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 43 A tone of voice having a drolly pathetic..sound. 1880Ouida Moths II. 59 Things manage themselves drolly. |