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你可能知道形容詞 “pretty” 可以表示某人是 “漂亮的”，這個詞也可以形容事物是 “賞心悅目的”。不過，你知道 “pretty” 在非正式語境中作副詞的用法嗎？看視頻，學習 “pretty” 的常見用法。

用法總結

1. 形容詞 “pretty” 常指某人（尤其女性）是 “漂亮的，標致的”。

• Margo always tells her daughter that she's pretty.

• She's kind, pretty, funny and intelligent. I love her! 

2. 形容詞 “pretty” 也可以表示事物或風景是 “賞心悅目的，精致美麗的”。

• There's a very pretty view at the top of that hill.

• What a pretty dress!

3. “Pretty” 作副詞，適用于非正式語境中。副詞 “pretty” 可以表示 “相當地”，類似于 “quite” 和 “rather”。

• The house was built recently, it's pretty new.

• I'm pretty sure I've locked the car. 

4. 副詞 “pretty” 也可起強調作用，表示 “很，非常”。

• We went to bed at 2am, so we were pretty tired.

• The food here is pretty bad. I won't come back.

5. 副詞短語 “pretty much” 和 “pretty well” 的意思是 “幾乎全部地，差不多地”。

• I think we've mentioned pretty well everything, so I guess we're pretty much finished. 

• It's pretty much time to go! I've packed pretty well all my stuff.