| 词组 | tight, tightly |
| 释义 | tight, tightly Tight is usually an adjective, but it is also commonly used as an adverb. Some of its adverbial uses overlap with those of tightly: • "Hold him tight," said the sergeant —James Stephens, The Crock of Gold, 1912 • Liz had closed her apartment tight —Van Siller, Cosmopolitan, March 1972 • "My baby," she said, holding Marilee tightly —Paul Horgan, Ladies' Home Jour., January 1971 • ... houses and shops which survived plundering are still closed tightly —Time, 2 Sept. 1946 By and large, however, the two words are used in distinct ways. Tight almost always follows the verb it modifies. It occurs especially in such idioms as freeze tight, sit tight, and sleep tight, as well as with such verbs as hold, close, squeeze, and shut. Tightly is a somewhat more common word which is used both before and after the verb or participle it modifies: • ... a tightly woven cycle of mutually dependent events —Barry Commoner, Columbia Forum, Spring 1968 • His argument is tightly reasoned —John Fischer, Harper's, March 1971 • ... that green baseball cap clamped tightly on his head —Caleb Pirtle III, Southern Living, June 1972 • ... thinking that is focused tightly on human problems —Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 1980 See also flat adverbs. |
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