Thursday, January 22, 2015

definitely vs. definitively

definitely adv.清楚地,当然地,绝对地  //常见影视里面表示绝对肯定,不容置疑
definitively adv.决定性地,最后地

definitively这个词发音稍有不同,第一次注意到这个词是在amazon上看The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character Expression这本书的评论,amazon总是给出好评最高投票和差评最高投票的对比,在这个三星差评最后一句里,有这么一句话:Thus, this book should be used as a supplement but definitively should not be used to supplant manuals or writing guidebooks.