automatically

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au·to·mat·i·cally /ˌɔːtəˈmætɪkli $ ˌɒː-/ S3 W3 AWL adverbadv

1 ALWAYS/EVERY TIMEas the result of a situation or action, and without you having to do anything more 必然，自动地

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现在加入，立即享受首次购物五折优惠。

2 THINK ABOUTwithout thinking about what you are doing 不假思索地，无意识地

Of course I automatically said yes.

当然，我脱口而出说是的。

3 MACHINEby the action of a machine, without a person making it work 自动地

The doors opened automatically as we approached.

我们走近时，门自动开了。

Examples from the Corpus

automatically• After a while, driving just comes automatically.• If accurate measurement of quality is in place, natural selection proceeds almost automatically.• Cancer is not automatically a death sentence.• You cannot automatically assume that everything your teacher says is correct.• Existing claims against the unit shall not by the process of conversion automatically become due.• Nevertheless if the judgment happens to be false, it does not automatically become meaningless.• But the families of all male employees were still automatically covered-without having to prove anything.• The gates rise automatically during high tide.• High wages no longer come automatically for the unskilled who live in rich countries.• It means that when we find stolen goods, we can automatically reunite them with their owners.• His mother continued to talk angrily, and Tim's thoughts automatically switched to more pleasant subjects.• A ballot that perplexingly spread presidential names over two pages led to many accidental double votes, which are automatically voided.

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