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cautiously

/kaw-shuhs/US // ˈkɔ ʃəs //UK // (ˈkɔːʃəs) //

小心翼翼地,谨慎地,慎重地,小心翼翼

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.

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Examples

  • Buffett, 90, has been cautious during the pandemic, saying in May that his then-record cash pile wasn’t that huge when considering the worst-case possibilities.

  • So be especially cautious if you’re flying from an area with an uncontrolled or rising outbreak to an area with lower levels of infection, or vice versa.

  • He was cautious in the beginning, but when he realized how serious I was about it—that I’d do anything I could to get the record, but that my health was even more important to me—once he was confident in that, he jumped on board immediately.

  • Some within the autonomous vehicle industry, though, would prefer even more cautious terminology.

  • Authorities are urging drivers to be extra cautious while traveling in highway work zones.

  • British commanders then, and British writers later, would maintain they had moved too cautiously.

  • What makes Noah mildly ambivalent, yet cautiously optimistic?

  • Brakey was cautiously optimistic about his chances in November.

  • The pilots cautiously edge their way to maximum speed in stages.

  • Read this if you want to spend the rest of your life cautiously rubbing your neck.

  • There was no response to the knock, and Davy cautiously pushed open the door and went in.

  • She stood at the head of the stairs; she went down a few steps, and listened; then cautiously she descended.

  • The lascar moved his feet cautiously, and they rustled among dried stumps.

  • Cautiously we retraced our steps from the lower end of the flat, and turned into the narrow mouth of the canyon.

  • For he suspects from his silence that he has so over-cautiously conducted matters that he wishes to conceal his actions.'