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Gleefully Root 英 ɡliːfəli] 美 ɡliːfəli Adv.愉快地 I Returned

英语单词 gleefully
英美音标 英 ['ɡliːfəli] 美 ['ɡliːfəli]
中文释义 adv.愉快地
英语例句 (1) When I returned, she gleefully nodded at the screen.
中文例句 (1) 等我回来,她正愉快地对着屏幕点头。
vocabulary简明 When you do something gleefully, you do it in an extremely happy way. If two kids call to each other gleefully across the playground, there's laughter and delight in their voices.
vocabulary扩展 Wedding guests might rush gleefully onto the dance floor when the DJ plays a popular song, and a child who is trick or treating for the first time will often gleefully dress in her ghost costume and even more gleefully watch her plastic pumpkin fill with Halloween candy. The adjective gleeful and related noun glee are at the root of gleefully, all of them sharing the Latin root word gliu, "entertainment, mirth, jest, or play."

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