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TOEFL BNC: 9569 COCA: 7000

earnest

Word family
ear·nest1 /ˈɜːnɪst $ ˈɜːr-/ ●○○ adjectiveadj
SERIOUS/NOT JOKINGvery serious and sincere 非常認真的,真誠的
a rather earnest young man
相當認真的一個年輕人
Matthews was in earnest conversation with a young girl.
馬修斯在和一個年輕姑娘認真地談話。
an earnest desire to offer something useful to society
爲社會做貢獻的真誠願望
earnest expression/look/voice etc 認真的表情/神情/聲音等
earnest attempt/effort etc 熱切的嘗試/努力等
see thesaurus at serious
earnestly adverbadv
earnestly discussing politics
認真地討論政治
earnestness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
earnest2 noun
1 in earnest START DOING somethingif something starts happening in earnest, it begins properly – used when it was happening in a small or informal way before 真正地;認真地
On Monday your training begins in earnest!
星期一你的訓練就正式開始了!
2 be in earnest SERIOUS PERSONto really mean what you are saying, especially when expressing an intention or wish 是認真的,是誠摯的〔尤指在表達意圖或願望時〕
She wasn’t sure whether he was in earnest or not.
她吃不準他是不是認真的。
be in dead/deadly/complete earnest
Although he smiled, Ashley knew he was in deadly earnest.
雖然他在微笑,但阿什利知道他是極其認真的。
Origin earnest1
Old English eornost
TOEFL BNC: 9569 COCA: 7000
TOEFL BNC: 9569 COCA: 7000
earnest adj.
serious2
TOEFL BNC: 9569 COCA: 7000
earnest
Determined and ambitious: determined, ambitious, persistent...
Determination and ambition: determination, ambition, will...
Serious and humourless: serious, humourless, substantial...

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