| 释义 |
impersonally, adv.|ɪmˈpɜːsənəlɪ|
[f. impersonal + -ly2.]
In an impersonal manner.
1. Gram. As an impersonal verb.
1580Baret Alv. To Rdr. A vij b, Adiect. noteth a word Adiectiuelie taken:..Imper. Impersonallie taken. 1730–6Bailey (folio) s.v., The Verb Rain is used impersonally. 1870R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) 152/2 Aegisthus used πάρεστι impersonally = licetne?
2. Without personal reference, connexion, or feeling; without reference to any particular person.
1854A. G. Henderson tr. Cousin's Philos. of Kant vii. 178 There is a state..where the reason manifests itself almost entirely impersonally. 1881H. James Portr. Lady xxxiii, He wished to describe him impersonally, scientifically. 1882H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. §533 The..laws which originate from personal authority, have inequality as their common essential principle; while the laws which originate impersonally, in the consensus of individual interests, have equality as their essential principle. |