shortlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈʃɔɹtli/

副詞

shortly (not comparable)

1. In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.
2. In or after a short time; soon.

   The past perfect progressive is used for actions and situations which had continued up to a past moment or shortly before it.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN‎:

     Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.

3. In few words.

   Synonyms: briefly, concisely

   Ideas are generally expressed more shortly in verse than in prose

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.

4. In an irritable ("short") manner.

   Synonyms: abruptly, curtly

   "Stop interrupting me, will ya?" she said shortly.

   • 2009, Susanne James, The Millionaire's Chosen Bride, page 147:

     'Well, I still think it was a rather off-hand way for you—for anyone—to behave,' he said shortly.
     Suddenly Melody felt trapped—and annoyed. And she didn't like being spoken to like a child, either.

形容詞

shortly

1. alternative form of schortly (adjective)

語源 2

副詞

shortly

1. alternative form of schortly (adverb)
   • 14 Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

     Now have I toold you shortly in a clause

     Now that I have briefly told you above