| 释义 |
blankly, adv.|ˈblæŋklɪ|
[f. blank a. + -ly2.]
1. In a blank manner, vacuously; with helpless passivity, resourcelessly, aimlessly.
1863Froude Hist. Eng. VIII. 65 They were looking blankly in each other's faces. 1867Morley Burke 63 The once blind souls of men and women who had laboured blankly, as brute beasts labour. 1881H. James Portr. Lady xxxvii, The latter smiled blandly, but somewhat blankly.
2. Starkly, utterly (in privative sense).
1823Lamb Elia (1860) 213 So blankly divested of all meaning. 1870E. J. B. Brown Eccl. Truth 230 Blankly atheistic doctrines.
3. Point-blank, flatly, nakedly, merely.
a1859De Quincey Mackintosh Wks. XIII. 89 It could not be blankly denied. |