gingerly
gingerly 英 [ˈdʒɪndʒəli] 美 [ˈdʒɪndʒərli]
adv. 小心翼翼地；慎重地 adj. 谨慎的；轻手轻脚的；慎重的
- If something needs to be done with great care and caution, you should do it gingerly — like gingerly holding a newborn baby or gingerly creeping down the creaky stairs when you're trying to sneak out.
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- adv. 小心翼翼地；慎重地
- adj. 谨慎的；轻手轻脚的；慎重的
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1. Then she gingerly secured the loose paint flakes around the rip with a liquid adhesive.
然后她小心翼翼地将裂口周围松动的油漆薄片用液体粘合剂固定起来。
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2. But we’ve treated China, which is not an ally and whose imbalances are even larger than Japan’s were, much more gingerly. Why?
但对于并非盟友，而且其失衡甚至比日本更大的中国，我们对待的方式却要谨慎得多，这是为什么呢？
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3. I emerged and gingerly sat down on the towel on the couch, legs tightly crossed.
我走出来，小心翼翼地坐在长椅的毛巾上，两腿交叉紧紧地夹住。
- gingerly (adv.) "extremely cautiously" (of movements, etc.), c. 1600, earlier "elegantly, daintily" (1510s), of unknown origin. Perhaps [OED] from Old French gensor, comparative of gent "dainty, delicate," from Latin gentius "(well)-born" (see gentle). Meaning "extremely cautiously" is from c. 1600.
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