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单词 briskly
释义 briskly, adv.|ˈbrɪsklɪ|
[f. brisk a. + -ly2.]
With brisk motion or action; sharply, smartly, quickly, energetically, vigorously, actively.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. i. (1675) 168 My Drowsiness..made me briskly enough bid him..let me alone.1676Lister in Ray's Corr. (1848) 124 [Lycopodium] will fire briskly in a flame.1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3809/6 The Cannon..kept firing very briskly.1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 200 Manufactures proceeded briskly.1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 125 A piece of dry silk..briskly rubbed against a warm plate of polished flint glass.1839tr. Lamartine's Trav. East 161/1 He sprang briskly to his feet.1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 1488 You urge him all the brisklier to repent.
b. Smartly, in reference to dress. Obs.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 228 A..fellow..briskly apparelled, in a blacke taffata doublet, and a spruce leather jerkin with christall buttons.
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