So she married the prince, and they lived happily ever after (=used at the end of children’s stories to say that someone was happy for the rest of their life).
她嫁给了王子,他们从此过着幸福的生活。
2[sentence adverbadv]LUCKY fortunately 幸运地
Happily, his injuries were not serious.
幸好,他的伤势并不严重。
3WILLINGvery willingly 很乐意地
I’d happily go for you.
我很乐意为你去一趟。
Most restaurants will happily accept payment by credit card.
大多数餐馆会乐意接受支票付款。
Examples from the Corpus
happily• The puppywagged its tailhappily.• Now he had his real orders, from his own memsab; he ascended the ladderhappily.• Happily, Bruce's injuries were not serious.• Colombine rejectsHarlequin, and she and Pierrot live happily ever after.• Second, software houses are happilyriding the wave of innovation that the Internet has set off.• A few artists will happily take on custom jobs.• With the 3.9iSE Vogue, the Range Rover continues happily to wear the crown.• I imagined the ribbon of my life happilyunfurling before me.• I find I can get along quite happily with a few dozen.
lived happily ever after• And so we all lived happily ever after.• In books everyone always lived happily ever after.• Later they had a son named Bastianelo, and the family lived happily ever after.• Perseus and Andromeda lived happily ever after.• Then she would be comforted by the thought that, once married, loverslived happily ever after.• With no one left to sabotage them, Snow White and the princelived happily ever after.• She knew that she would not have lived happily ever after with Peter Datchett.