a word that adds more information about place, time, manner, cause or degree to a verb, an adjective, a phrase or another adverb 副词 In ‘speak kindly’, ‘incredibly deep’, ‘just in time’ and ‘too quickly’, ‘kindly’, ‘incredibly’, ‘just’ and ‘too’ are all adverbs. 在 speak kindly、incredibly deep、just in time 和 too quickly 四个短语中,kindly、incredibly、just 和 too 都是副词。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- interrogative
- sentence
- modify something
- qualify something
- an adverb of degree
- an adverb of manner
- an adverb of place
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin adverbium, from ad- ‘to’ (expressing addition) + verbum ‘word, verb’.