| 释义 |
inadˈvertently, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an inadvertent manner; without due attention or thought; inattentively, heedlessly, carelessly; hence, unintentionally.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 747 They..inadvertently give their assent to those Words in a Wrong Sense. 1756Burke Subl. & B. iv. xvii, If, after descending a flight of stairs, we attempt inadvertently to take another step in the manner of the former ones, the shock is extremely rude and disagreeable. 1803Wellington Let. to Col. Collins in Gurw. Desp. (1837) II. 140, I cannot approve of the expression inadvertently used in Colonel Stevenson's letter. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xi. (1878) 214, I have already inadvertently broken my promise. |