| 单词 | expressly |
| 释义 | expressly (once / 442 pages) adv Something done expressly is done only for a very specific reason or purpose. Growing up, your grandparents' formal living room might have been used expressly for adult parties. A politician running for office might use campaign donations expressly for buying television ads, and a middle school student might use her school laptop expressly for chatting with her friends and posting photos online. In both cases, there is one very specific intention. The earliest, fourteenth century meaning of expressly was "in detail" or "plainly." By 1600, it came to mean "for the express purpose," from the Latin expressus, "clearly presented." WORD FAMILYexpress: expressage, expressed, expressedly, expresses, expressible, expressing, expression, expressive, expressly+/expressed: unexpressed/expressible: expressibly, inexpressible, unexpressible/expression: expressionism, expressionless, expressions, self-expression/expressionism: expressionisms, expressionist, expressionistic, neoexpressionism/expressionist: expressionists/expressionless: expressionlessly/expressive: expressively, expressiveness, inexpressive, unexpressive/inexpressible: inexpressibly/inexpressive: inexpressively/unexpressible: unexpressibly/unexpressive: unexpressively USAGE EXAMPLESThe main highway from Bismarck to Cannon Ball was closed, expressly to discourage people from traveling from to the protest. Salon(Dec 25, 2016) She said it sets a “really dangerous precedent for these views to be considered legitimate public debate, when it’s expressly hate speech.” Seattle Times(Dec 19, 2016) “It is a law that expressly states its aim is to develop the settlements in Judea and Samaria.” Economist(Dec 15, 2016) adv with specific intentions; for the express purpose she needs the money expressly for her patients |
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