| 释义 |
messily, adv.|ˈmɛsɪlɪ|
[f. messy a. + -ly2.]
In a messy manner, so as to make a mess.
1920K. Burke Let. 6 Sept. in P. Jay Sel. Corr. Kenneth Burke & Malcolm Cowley (1988) 778, I detest messy things, but so far it has been my fate to write messily, as much as I try to avoid it. 1925A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves iv. iii. 291 Miss Elver..was eating chocolate éclairs and meringues, messily, with an expression of rapture on her cream-smeared face. 1949J. D. Carr Life of Sir A. Conan Doyle xix. 282 At moated Birlstone Manor, a man is messily murdered with a shotgun amid curious clues. 1969V. Nabokov Ada ii. iii. 356 A cauliflowered candle was messily burning in its tin cup on the window ledge. 1987I. McEwan Child in Time v. 95 He put his hands over his face and cried briefly and messily. 1991N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Dec. 81/1 His rare personal appearances at home often as not ended up messily, the police required at least once. |