forthwith

英语

词源

源自中古英語 forth-with、fourth-with、furþ-with (“马上，立刻”)，部分源自短语forth with (something)，^[1]部分源自forth-with-al、furth-with-al (“马上；和...一起”)（派生出forthwithal）。^[2]^[3]

发音

(標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /fɔːθˈwɪð/, /-ˈwɪθ/
(通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /fɔɹθˈwɪθ/, /ˈfɔɹθˌwɪθ/
（通用美式）音频： (檔案)
韻部：-ɪð, -ɪθ
斷字：forth‧with

副词

forthwith (不可比)

(主正式，書面) 马上，立即，立刻（自14世纪初叶）
近義詞：(古旧) forthwithal
- Template:RQ:Erasmus Commune Crede
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC，第 243–245 行s:
  Let ther be Light, ſaid God, and forthwith Light, / Ethereal, firſt of things, quinteſſence pure, / Sprung from the Deep, [...]
  要有光，上帝说，顷刻之间，天光跃出深渊，万物的开端，纯粹的第五种基本物质，[...]
- Template:RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress
- 1714, T[itus] Lucretius Carus, “Of the Annual Inundation of the River Nile”, 出自 Thomas Creech（譯者）, Of the Nature of Things. Translated into English Verse […], 第 II (Containing the Fifth and Sixth Books) 卷s, London: Printed by John Matthews, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC，第 703 頁:
  And no doubt the dry'd Dirt, and Slime of which we were ſpeaking, would have imbib'd ſome Portion of the Humidity, the Day before the Nile overflow'd, had it not been kept ſo cloſe: but being once releas'd from that Cuſtody, it forthwith ruſhes into the Embraces of the deſir'd Moiſture, following the natural Propenſity of dry Bodies to wet.
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- Template:RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado
- 1961 July, “Glasgow emergency – the restoration of Clydeside steam suburban services”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，第 431 頁:
  The task was the harder in that the restored service had not only to start forthwith but also to last for several months pending modifications to the multiple-unit electric stock, and this called for organisation on a semi-permanent basis.
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- 1998, Richard M. Zaner, “Surprise! You’re Just Like Me!: Reflections on Cloning, Eugenics, and Other Utopias”, 出自 Human Cloning (Biomedical Ethics Reviews), New York, N.Y.: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN，第 114 頁:
  [Hans] Jonas emphasized years ago that the prospect of genetic control, though cloning and other means, "raises ethical questions of a wholly new kind," for which we are profoundly unprepared. [...] Is it defensible in any sense, for instance, to set out forthwith to create "grade A individuals", "kids made to order," whether designed as privileged deciders of policy or merely dumb drones for the duller humdrum chores of life?
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- 2010, Martin W. Bowman, “Dam Buster – Dudley Heal”, 出自 Bombs Away!: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth Bomber Aircrew in WWII, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN，第 133 頁:
  [W]hen the Board announced in March 1940, that after a certain date in May no Customs staff aged 23 or over would be allowed to join the Armed Forces it made our minds up for us. We were both 23! We forthwith applied for permission to enlist in the RAF.
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参考资料

↑ “fō̆rth-with, adv.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
↑ “fō̆rth-with-al, adv.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
↑ “forthwith, adv.”，OED Online ⁠，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，1897年; “forthwith, adv.”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.

[1] “fō̆rth-with, adv.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

[2] “fō̆rth-with-al, adv.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

[3] “forthwith, adv.”，OED Online ⁠，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，1897年; “forthwith, adv.”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.

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