| 单词 | consciously |
| 释义 | consciously (once / 1460 pages) adv When you do something consciously. you do it on purpose, after thinking seriously about it. A kindergarten teacher might consciously choose a soothing book to calm his class down at story time. If you do something instinctively or automatically, you're not consciously choosing to do it — it's just happening. On the other hand, if you consciously invite only friends who get along with each other to your party, you've done it in a thoughtful, intentional way. The adverb consciously comes from conscious, "aware and awake," from the Latin conscius, "knowing or aware," which has a Greek root, syneidos, "to know." WORD FAMILYconscious: consciously, consciousness, nonconscious, self-conscious, semiconscious, subconscious, unconscious+/consciousness: consciousnesses/self-conscious: self-consciously, self-consciousness/semiconscious: semiconsciously, semiconsciousness/subconscious: subconsciouses, subconsciously, subconsciousness/unconscious: unconsciously, unconsciousness/unconsciousness: unconsciousnesses USAGE EXAMPLESBut the founders also consciously rejected some of the less appealing aspects of life at Apple, like its legendary secrecy and top-down management style. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) As a child, I never remember thinking consciously about gender. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) He is negligent of his old friends, rude, even dismissive, but he is not consciously or systematically cruel. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) adv with awareness she consciously played with the idea of inviting them Ant unconsciously without awareness |
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