Saturday, January 9, 2010

Temporary vs Temporarily

Just trying to bring this up to someone =)
Many seems to be making mistakes in the usage of these 2 similar but different words.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/temporary
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/temporarily

The former is an adjective, the latter is an adverb.


From Oxford English Dictionary:

temporary: lasting or meant to last for a limited time; not permanent
eg.
-temporary employment 临时工作
-temporary bridge 临时桥


My sentence:
I was temporarily hired to help in building the temporary bridge.
我被暂时性地雇佣来帮助建筑那座临时桥。



Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong =3

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