| 释义 |
tremendously, adv.|trɪˈmɛndəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a tremendous manner or degree; dreadfully; hence colloq. as a hyperbolical intensive: Exceedingly, extremely, excessively, very greatly.
1680Baxter Cath. Commun. (1684) 36 And Peter oft, and once tremendously..rebuk't by Christ. 1731Bailey, Tremendously, dreadingly. 1776Pennant Zool. (ed. 4) I. 177 White Owl: This species..will often scream most tremendously. 1817Southey Ess. (1832) II. 43 The game was of the same kind, though the stake differed tremendously in magnitude. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 394 If he should have gone, I shall have some tremendously hard work for nothing. 1904Yorks. Post 9 Sept. 4/3 How tremendously costly a thing naval ‘supremacy’ has become. |