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单词 fondly
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Definition of fondly in English:

fondly

adverbˈfɒndliˈfɑndli
  • 1With affection or liking.

    he talks fondly of his grandfather
    things I fondly recall from my childhood
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It makes me think fondly back to the days when I was at drama school, where you'd be encouraged to fall flat on your face, to try things out.
    • She fondly remembers the first of her dolls, made with her Nana from a silky white pair of ladies' underpants.
    • She speaks fondly of the time she spent in the master classes at Yale University.
    • Now that they are gone, he fondly remembers their good deeds.
    • They fondly recall vessels that would depart the island, meander about for a day or evening, then return to port.
    • They reflect fondly upon the experience of making the film.
    • With most exploitation films, it's readily understandable why they are held in fondly cherished memory.
    • Anna remembers her mother fondly and is reluctant to embrace a new mother.
    • Her book tells of life with her father and four siblings, endless mobs of goats and sheep, and a horse-drawn trailer fondly named the Territory Queen.
    • Sometimes, looking fondly on tradition and the ways things used to be is seen as being overly sentimental.
  • 2With foolishly optimistic hope or belief; naively.

    they fondly believed the cheers were for them
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Less than four years ago, media marketers and channel executives imagined fondly that their fortunes lay in women.
    • He wanted to stick them in front of military installations as opposed to the hospitals and petting zoos that they'd fondly imagined they were going to defend.
    • Trudging back to his mark, he muttered unthinkable thoughts about the decision in what he fondly imagined was below his breath.
    • They fondly imagined it might win the support of the former ship's steward.
    • Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
    • The unorganized multitudes are not a source of resistance to tyranny, as some theorists fondly believe.
    • Far from shunning the modern world, as romantics fondly imagined, the Irish traveled great distances to get into it.
    • I ask someone to ask him what they catch with them, fondly imagining that it must be some tasty, exotic marsupial.
    • It began to be obvious that certain zones may owe rather less to him than the Trust had fondly wished to believe.
    • Stepping outside the door of the plane, I fondly imagined that the wall of heat was coming from the jet exhaust.

Definition of fondly in US English:

fondly

adverbˈfɑndliˈfändlē
  • 1With affection or liking.

    he talks fondly of his grandfather
    things I fondly recall from my childhood
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Anna remembers her mother fondly and is reluctant to embrace a new mother.
    • Her book tells of life with her father and four siblings, endless mobs of goats and sheep, and a horse-drawn trailer fondly named the Territory Queen.
    • It makes me think fondly back to the days when I was at drama school, where you'd be encouraged to fall flat on your face, to try things out.
    • She fondly remembers the first of her dolls, made with her Nana from a silky white pair of ladies' underpants.
    • Now that they are gone, he fondly remembers their good deeds.
    • They reflect fondly upon the experience of making the film.
    • She speaks fondly of the time she spent in the master classes at Yale University.
    • They fondly recall vessels that would depart the island, meander about for a day or evening, then return to port.
    • With most exploitation films, it's readily understandable why they are held in fondly cherished memory.
    • Sometimes, looking fondly on tradition and the ways things used to be is seen as being overly sentimental.
  • 2With foolishly optimistic hope or belief; naively.

    they fondly believed the cheers were for them
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He wanted to stick them in front of military installations as opposed to the hospitals and petting zoos that they'd fondly imagined they were going to defend.
    • Trudging back to his mark, he muttered unthinkable thoughts about the decision in what he fondly imagined was below his breath.
    • I ask someone to ask him what they catch with them, fondly imagining that it must be some tasty, exotic marsupial.
    • Less than four years ago, media marketers and channel executives imagined fondly that their fortunes lay in women.
    • The unorganized multitudes are not a source of resistance to tyranny, as some theorists fondly believe.
    • Stepping outside the door of the plane, I fondly imagined that the wall of heat was coming from the jet exhaust.
    • Far from shunning the modern world, as romantics fondly imagined, the Irish traveled great distances to get into it.
    • They fondly imagined it might win the support of the former ship's steward.
    • Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
    • It began to be obvious that certain zones may owe rather less to him than the Trust had fondly wished to believe.
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