joyously adv.
快乐地, 快活地
joyously[ adv ]
in a joyous and gleeful manner
<adv.all>
the old man had greeted her gleefully
Joyous \Joy"ous\, a. [OE. joyous, joious, joios, F. joyeux.See
{Joy}.]
Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy;
with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
Is this your joyous city? --Is. xxiii.
7.
They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. --Spenser.
And joyous of our conquest early won. --Dryden.
Syn: Merry; lively; blithe; gleeful; gay; glad; mirthful;
sportive; festive; joyful; happy; blissful; charming;
delightful. -- {Joy"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ous*ness}, n.
- I still remember the sight of two young Israeli soldiers, one male and the other female, roaring into Tel Aviv on a motor scooter from the desert, joyously waving a captured Egyptian battle flag.
- It calculates the impact of drought as being four times that of abstraction. This conclusion has not been greeted joyously by conservation bodies dedicated to protecting the Kennet.
- Germans who once joyously embraced at the broken Berlin Wall are now checking to see if they still have their wallets.