gingerly
adverb /ˈdʒɪndʒəli/
/ˈdʒɪndʒərli/
- in a careful way, because you are afraid of being hurt, of making a noise, etc.
谨慎地；小心翼翼地；轻手轻脚地 - He opened the box gingerly and looked inside.
他小心翼翼地打开盒子朝里看。
Collocations DictionaryGingerly is used with these verbs:- lift
- open
- pick
- …
词源early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘daintily, mincingly’): perhaps from Old French gensor ‘delicate’, comparative of gent ‘graceful’, from Latin genitus ‘(well-) born’. - He opened the box gingerly and looked inside.