| 词组 | kindly |
| 释义 | kindly Kindly is used both as an adjective ("a kindly smile") and as an adverb ("he smiled kindly"). In one of its many adverbial uses it serves as a synonym of please: • The old woman did not know it but she spoke in a hoity-toity voice.... "Kindly order me a conveyance" —Rumer Godden, Ladies' Home Jour., December 1970 • "And now you'll kindly do me the favor to pack a suitcase full of clothes and send it on to me. I'll give you just one week for it, too." —Katherine Anne Porter, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 These passages illustrate two ways in which kindly differs from please: it tends to have a highly formal sound, and it often has an imperious quality, so that the request being made comes across as a command. If someone you disliked were to clap a hand on your shoulder in a hearty gesture of insincere friendship, you might find yourself saying, "Kindly take your grubby paw off me." Please just wouldn't be appropriate at such a moment. The "please" sense of kindly is standard, but a few commentators regard it with varying degrees of disapproval. Flesch 1964 states flatly that it "shouldn't be used." Evans 1957 finds that it "has a touch of unc-tuousness about it that may defeat its intention of being elegant or ingratiating" when used in such a phrase as kindly remit. Our evidence suggests, however, that its use in such a phrase is not meant to be ingratiating, but forceful. As Bremner 1980 puts it, "kindly is stronger and more formal than please and tends to connote the idea of'Do this—or else.'" A related use of kindly cited by Fowler 1926 is in such a sentence as "You are kindly requested to return the enclosed form within 30 days." This is a fairly common way of making a formal request, but Fowler dislikes it because it seems to imply that the requester is giving himself credit for being kind. |
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