| 词组 | presently |
| 释义 | presently ◊ used to mean 'soon' If something will happen presently, it will happen quite soon. He will be here presently. I shall have more to say presently. If you are talking about the past, you use presently to say that something happened quite soon after something else. Presently all was quiet again. Presently my sister said 'I think she was lying.' Both these uses of presently are slightly old-fashioned. ◊ used to mean 'now' Some people use presently after 'be' to mean 'now'. ...the oil and gas rigs that are presently in operation. America and Japan are presently working on chips which will hold a million words. This use of presently is fairly new in British English, and some speakers find it unacceptable. Instead of 'presently', you can say at present. He is at present serving a life sentence. The comet is at present between the constellations of Pegasus and Delphinius. You can put at present at the beginning or end of a clause. You cannot do this with presently when it means 'now'. At present there is a world energy shortage. We're short of staff at present. |
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