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gingerly

/jin-jer-lee/US // ˈdʒɪn dʒər li //UK // (ˈdʒɪndʒəlɪ) //

轻轻地,缓慢地,轻轻的,怯生生地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with great care or caution; warily.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cautious, careful, or wary.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Davis, who missed 30 consecutive games during the regular season with a right calf strain and was moving gingerly during Game 3 with a left knee sprain, appeared to suffer the groin injury in the final minute of the second quarter.

  • You will gingerly open the front door hoping the cat is not on alert waiting to escape as you go in the house.

  • I’d eat a plate of food and load up a perfect bite on my fork to carefully feed to somebody, one hand gingerly hovering below to catch falling crumbs, so I could watch the smile spread over their face as they chewed it.

  • With lights in hand, divers Jeff Milisen and Sarah Mayte snapped up-close photos of nearly 80 larval fishes, then gingerly captured and shipped them to scientists to be studied alongside their mugshots.

  • As she gingerly hobbled behind the baseline, she nearly tumbled over as staff members rushed to assist her.

  • In one of the activities men practiced putting the dolls gingerly on their backs to carry them.

  • I gingerly walked down the center staircase and out into what was a chilly, sunny October morning.

  • Gingerly, about 30 couples lay down and squatted on mats and rugs for the mass face-sit.

  • The political and cultural climate was shifting, but gingerly.

  • He gingerly lifted it up from its defensive position outside the army barracks and placed it in my hand.

  • Sergeant Burton knelt down and gingerly laid his hand upon the stained linen over the breast of Sir Lucien.

  • In this gingerly way did the deputies lift the curtain and peer down the road to revolution.

  • She held it gingerly in her fingers and extended her arm over the sheer dark descent into the thronged street.

  • Nagpirigpirig siya sa hagdan nga nagkurugkurug, He was walking gingerly on the wobbly steps.

  • Up another gangway enough cordite to blow up the whole of Liverpool was being gingerly carried in small cases.

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