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副詞

only too well (not comparable)

1. (after adjective) very
   • 1922, Stephen McKenna, The Confessions of a Well-Meaning Woman‎^[1]:

     In a crisis I am only too well aware that I am always left to find a way out, but that night I felt hardly adequate even to ordinary conversation

   • 1913, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 10, in The Wind in the Willows:

     After some miles of country lanes he reached the high road, and as he turned into it and glanced along its white length, he saw approaching him a speck that turned into a dot and then into a blob, and then into something very familiar; and a double note of warning, only too well known, fell on his delighted ear.

2. (after verb) to a high degree; very well or very much
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Cities were not built to handle this volume of last-mile activity – a fact that firms such as UPS realise only too well.

   • 2014, Trina Chako, Sisters‎^[3]:

     You understand?”
     “Only too well.” Sudhir said wryly.