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单词 gingerly
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gingerly

adverb
/ˈdʒɪndʒəli/
/ˈdʒɪndʒərli/
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  1. in a careful way, because you are afraid of being hurt, of making a noise, etc.
    • He opened the box gingerly and looked inside.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryGingerly is used with these verbs:
    • lift
    • open
    • pick
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    Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘daintily, mincingly’): perhaps from Old French gensor ‘delicate’, comparative of gent ‘graceful’, from Latin genitus ‘(well-) born’.
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