| 单词 | presently |
| 释义 | presently (once / 83 pages) adv The adverb presently means "very soon." If you tell your sister that you'll be at her house presently, you mean that you're on your way. You might say that the cookies you just put in the oven will be done presently, or describe how you were so sleepy last night that you opened a book and presently fell asleep, before you could read a single page. Presently also means "right now," as when you say that the temperature outside is presently thirty degrees. This is the older of the two meanings — a fourteenth-century sense of "at present" gradually changed to include "sooner or later." WORD FAMILYpresent: presence, presentable, presentation, presented, presenter, presenting, presently, presentment, presentness, presents+/presence: presences/presentable: presentably, unpresentable/presentation: presentational, presentations/presenter: presenters/presentment: presentments/unpresentable: unpresentably USAGE EXAMPLESThe project is ongoing with more than 300 courts and hoops presently documented, together with subsets of the series including a focus on backboards. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) He is presently serving six years and four months in the federal prison in Lompoc, California. Reuters(Dec 28, 2016) Presently there are four European countries that allow physicians to assist people who are not terminally ill in ending their lives. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1adv at this time or period; now he is presently our ambassador to the United Nations Syn currently 2adv in the near future she will arrive presently Syn before long, shortly, soon |
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