precipitously

副词 adv.
中文释义
美 /pɹɪˈsɪ.pɪ.təs.li/

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In a precipitous manner.; Abruptly; quickly.
    — Population dropped to the lowest point in five millennia. State resources declined precipitously. In many strategic and formerly prosperous areas, there were tax revenue losses of 90 percent or more in less than a single lifetime.
  2. In a precipitous manner.; At a sharp upwards angle.
    — Never will I visit it again; it is a place of evil omen.' After a very brief halt for breakfast we pressed on with such good will that by two o'clock in the afternoon we were at the foot of the vast wall of rock that formed the lip of the volcano, and which at this point towered up precipitously above us for fifteen hundred or two thousand feet.

词形变化

more precipitously comparative most precipitously superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English precipitous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English precipitously
From precipitous + -ly.
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