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warily

/wair-uh-lee/US // ˈwɛər ə li //

战战兢兢地,警惕地,小心翼翼地,小心翼翼

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a wary manner.

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Examples

  • It was home to a vibrant community of string theorists who warily welcomed me.

  • If Little Albert were alive today, he might smile, no doubt warily, at researchers working to extinguish real-life anguish.

  • Officials had warily lifted restrictions, desperate to restart the economy.

  • This year was supposed to be better than 2020, and yet, not a week into 2021, the other shoe—the one we all knew was coming, the one we all had been warily waiting for—finally dropped.

  • The lesson is that polling is hard, and we should regard all election polls warily.

  • The school counselor forced to deal with me pulled her headscarf forward and glanced warily at the videotape on her desk.

  • The United States government is watching warily, trying to broker diplomatic settlements and, so far, failing.

  • These clerics led by Hamza—which means “steadfast” in Arabic—approached us warily, slowly.

  • Despite his insistence that the book is a failure, a warily honest narrator emerges.

  • Environmentalists have responded warily to the advent of gas.

  • You never can tell, Phyllis murmured, treading through the grass more warily.

  • He did not ask his visitors to take seats, though, but he kept watching them warily out of the corners of his eyes.

  • He came back warily, forgetting his English accent, which he had laboriously imitated in admiration of a certain vaudeville hero.

  • Ursi edged warily toward Clark as if he were a ferocious but chained beast.

  • There was bright moonlight last night with snow, and I may tell you that I walked warily!