单词 | mysteriously |
释义 | mysteriously (once / 1219 pages) adv If something occurs in a strange or eerie way, you can say it happens mysteriously. Your little brother might mysteriously disappear every time the dog needs to be walked, for example. When something can't be easily explained, it happens mysteriously. Some people say that boats mysteriously disappear in a region of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Bermuda Triangle, and others tell stories of sick people being mysteriously healed by prayer. At the heart of mysteriously is the noun mystery, which had only a religious meaning until the late fourteenth century, and which is rooted in the the Greek word mysterion, "secret rite or doctrine." WORD FAMILYmysterious: mysteriouser, mysteriousest, mysteriously+/mystery: mysteries, mysterious USAGE EXAMPLESIn the first Creek episode, a mother and her children mysteriously dying was lazily put-to-bed with a last-minute mention of a rare blood disease. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Jack’s goal is to treat the job like a writer’s retreat; instead, he is mysteriously driven to madness and murder. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) In early summer, when the commission first began searching for a venue, every booking mysteriously fell through. The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) adv in a cryptic manner Syn cryptically, enigmatically |
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