| 单词 | doubly |
| 释义 | doubly (once / 943 pages) adv The adverb doubly means "twice as" or "double." If your new French class is doubly hard as last year's class, it's two times harder. Sometimes people use doubly for general emphasis, to mean "very" or "especially." Your boss might say, "Today's doubly important because the owner of the company will be observing our work." Or you might feel doubly hungry for breakfast after a morning swim. Doubly comes from the adjective double, with its Latin root of duplus, "twofold or twice as much," from duo, "two." WORD FAMILYdouble: doubled, doubler, doubles, doubling, doublingly, doubly+/doubler: doublers/doubling: doublings USAGE EXAMPLESWhat’s true is real life is doubly so on television. Salon(Dec 14, 2016) This was doubly important because arguably the most important sequence of the film, the end one, is fashioned from all of the earlier musical themes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016) Health-wise, the more vegetables the better, so dipping them in salsa is a doubly smart move. Washington Post(Dec 06, 2016) 1adv to double the degree she was doubly rewarded Syn double, twice 2adv in a twofold manner he was doubly wrong Syn in two ways |
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