英和和英

語源

From equal +‎ -ly.

発音

• IPA: /ˈiːkwəli/
• (dialectal, archaic) IPA: /ˈiːkəli/

副詞

equally (comparative more equally, superlative most equally)

1. (manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly

   All citizens are equally taxed.

   The pie was divided equally among the guests.

   They shared equally in the spoils.

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d:
     And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes,
     Share equally the gold that bought their liues,
     And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]

   • 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN‎:

     You have to give them credit, rarely does a character appeal equally to four-year-old children and middle-aged aunts posting tepid jokes and fake Oscar Wilde quotes on their timelines.

2. (degree) In equal degree or extent; just as.

   The gas stations are equally far from the highway.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

3. (conjunctive) Used to link two or more coordinate elements

   John suffered setbacks at his job. Equally, Frank's business slowed.

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