gingerly

英語

詞源

副詞可能派生自盎格魯-諾曼語 gençur和古法語 gençor、gensor (「更美麗的，更禮貌的」) [以及其他形式] + 英語 -ly (副詞構成後綴)。gençor是gent (「美麗的，英俊的；貴族的，高貴的；禮貌的，彬彬有禮的；流利的；禮貌地；高雅地」)的比較級，源自晚期拉丁語 *gentus，拉丁語 genitus (「出身（好）的」)的變體，gignō (「結，成為...之父；導致，產生」)的被動完成時分詞， 最終源自原始印歐語 *ǵenh₁- (「使...誕生；產生」)。

《牛津英語詞典》指出，盎格魯-諾曼語和古法語的12世紀的文獻，以及13世紀以後才可考的現代法語詞之間存在一個幾個世紀的缺口。因而若現代英語詞源自盎格魯-諾曼語和古法語詞，則必須是經由口頭或已失傳的文獻傳入的（可能是作為舞蹈界的術語）。

形容詞派生自副詞，可能是因為-ly亦是一個形容詞構成後綴。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈdʒɪn(d)ʒəli/

• （英國南部）音頻

  （文檔）

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɚli/
• 斷字：gin‧ger‧ly

副詞

gingerly (比較級 more gingerly，最高級 most gingerly)

1. 小心翼翼地，謹慎地

   近義詞： (主英國，方言，加拿大，美國) ginger、tentatively、warily

   He placed the glass jar gingerly on the concrete step.

   他小心翼翼地將玻璃瓶放在水泥台階上。

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   • 2012 6月 3, Nathan Rabin, 「The Simpsons (Classic): 『Mr. Plow』」, 出自 The A.V. Club‎^[1]，於27 October 2020歸檔自原頁面:

     Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer [Simpson] into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.

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   • 2014 1月 20, Michael Daly, 「The Black and White Men who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life」, 出自 The Daily Beast‎^[2], 出版於 14 April 2017 (update)，於18 January 2021歸檔自原頁面:

     [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no "I Have a Dream" speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.

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2. (棄用，主要指舞蹈或走路) 步伐小地，優美地；裝腔作勢地
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衍生詞彙

• ginger (形容詞、副詞與動詞)

相關詞彙

• gingerish
• gingerness

形容詞

gingerly (比較級 more gingerly，最高級 most gingerly)

1. 小心翼翼的

   近義詞： (主英國，方言，加拿大，美國) ginger、gingerish、tentative、wary

   • 1867, R[ebecca] H[arding] Davis, 「The Valley of the Shadow」, 出自 Waiting for the Verdict, New York, N.Y.: Sheldon & Company, 出版於 1868, →OCLC，頁號 174:

     But, ther's somethin' in the very look and voice of Jeems Strebling, even in his gingerly walk, that riles all the black drop in me.

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   • 1961 March, Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, image caption，頁號 185:

     The down "Atlantic Coast Express", headed by Pacific No. 35020 Bibby Line, passes the scene of operations at a gingerly 10 m.p.h.

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   • 2012, David [Alan] Mack, 章號 28, 出自 Persistence of Memory (Star Trek: The Next Generation; Cold Equations; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, part 3 (Elegy):

     Several gingerly taps on her console fired clusters of modified probes into the maelstrom of the gas giant’s atmosphere.

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2. (棄用，尤指人或其移動方式) 步伐小的，優美的；裝腔作勢的

衍生詞彙

• gingerliness

異序詞

• niggerly