英语单词 | dryly |
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英美音标 | 英 美 |
中文释义 | adv.冷淡地;讽剌地;枯躁无味地 =drily. |
vocabulary简明 | If you say something dryly, you say it in a funny but matter-of-fact way. Your friend's dryly humorous comments might be your favorite thing about watching soap operas with him. |
vocabulary扩展 | People who joke or remark dryly have a straight-faced delivery, even as they are saying the funniest things. You could also describe a black comedy as being dryly funny, or a character in a book as narrating dryly. The adverb dryly comes from dry, which more commonly means "not wet" than "subtly humorous" — although the humor meaning dates from the early 15th century. |
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