| 释义 |
sceptically, skeptically, adv.|ˈskɛptɪkəlɪ|
[f. sceptical + -ly2.]
In a sceptical manner; like a sceptic.
[1633: see scepticly adv.] 1671J. Webster Metallogr. v. 84 Things being yet so far from being certainly known that I dare but Sceptically treat of them. 1709Shaftesbury Charac. (1711) III. Misc. Refl. ii. ii. 74 He condescended still, on many occasions, to speak sceptically, and with some Hesitation and Reserve, as to the Certainty of these Divine Exhibitions. 1839Hallam Lit. Eur. iii. iii. III. 203 Even this [the atomic theory] has been sceptically accepted by our cautious school of philosophy. 1884Harper's Mag. May 908 ‘Where did they get the banjo?’ asked..Jones, skeptically. |