| 词组 | dear, dearly |
| 释义 | dear, dearly The adverbs dear and dearly are interchangeable only in contexts dealing with cost: • The present version has cost Britain dear —The Economist, 1 Feb. 1985 • ... negligence on the part of the British government (for which it later paid dear) —Samuel Eliot Mori-son, Oxford History of the American People, 1965 • Their high wages are dearly bought with monotonous labour —Times Literary Supp., 5 Mar. 1970 • ... has cost the United States dearly in men and money —Richard H. Rovere, New Yorker, 5 June 1971 Dearly is used in other contexts: • The social word still matters dearly to her —Gail Cameron, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 • ... in that he dearly loved a fight —Times Literary Supp., 19 Feb. 1971 • ... he wished so dearly to live that he let his life be taken from him rather than take it himself —Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 |
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