英语单词 | involuntarily |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪn'vɒləntrəli] 美 [ɪn'vɒləntrəli] |
中文释义 | adv.不知不觉地;无意识地 |
英语例句 | (1) She unconsciously sat up, smoothed her hair, stood up, and walked to the window, involuntarily drawing a deep breath of the refreshing coolness of the clear, windy evening. |
中文例句 | (1) 她毫无意识地坐起来,整理了一下头发,站起来走到窗前,晚风送来清凉新鲜的空气,她不由得深深地吸了一口。 |
vocabulary简明 | When you do something involuntarily, you do it despite not wanting to. You might involuntarily start to giggle during your cousin's Star Wars-themed wedding ceremony. |
vocabulary扩展 | Use the adverb involuntarily to describe things that are done against your will or without your control. You'll involuntarily take a swim if your brother pushes you in the deep end of a pool; when you have a twitch in your eye, you blink involuntarily. In either case, the word involuntarily combines the Latin prefix in, "not or opposite of" with voluntarius, "of one's free will." |
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