(A)If I remember (guess) right...; Do it right next time! (LDCE)
(B) If I rightly remember, Randolph arrived in 1950.
上面的 right 和 rightly 都用作副词,不知它们之间有何区别?
上面的副词 right 和副词 rightly 在词义上没有区别,都作“正确地”解。但在用法上有些区别。right修饰动词时,通常放在动词的后边,而rightly修饰动词时,常常放在动词的前边,偶尔也放在动词后边。rightly一般不修饰形容词或副词。此外,rightly可放在句首,对全句内容进行评估(例11,12)。此时不能用right来替换。请分析下面的例句:
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You don't hold your chopsticks right. 你拿筷子的样子不对。
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It's none of my business whether they act right or wrong. 他们的行为合宜与否,不关我的事。
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You didn't spell that word right. (Wood) 你没拼对那个单词。
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He guessed right first time. (Palmer) 他第一次猜对了。
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I don't think papa acted quite right. (Dreiser) 我认为爸爸做得不大对。
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Lafargue rightly estimates the creative method of Marx. (Fox) 拉法格正确地估计了马克思的创造方法。
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He rightly guessed that I was safe. (Thorndike) 他准确地猜到了我很安全。
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I can't rightly recollect whether... (GPU) 我不能正确地想起是否……
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They rightly guessed that he would refuse to help. 他们正确猜测到他是会拒绝给予帮助的。
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If I understand rightly... (《韦氏辞典》, 电子版) 如果我理解正确的话……
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Rightly, Mrs Jensen consulted her lawyer. (CGEL) 詹森夫人咨询了她的律师, 这是正确的。
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Rightly, the meeting ended early today. (CGEL) 今天的会议结束得很早, 这是正确的。
此外,副词 right 还有许多其他含义,是副词 rightly 所没有的,如常见的词义:“向右”“顺利”“正好”:
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She drove to the corner and turned right. 她开车到拐弯处向右转。
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Nothing seems to go right with him. 他一切都不顺利。
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She was standing right in the middle of the room. 她正站在房间的正中央。请做下面的英语试题:
The patients believe that the doctor knows exactly how to put them ____.
A. correct B. straight C. right D. well(全国研考,92-16)