0 gently -- 輕輕地;稍稍地
lightly cooked vegetables 燒得很嫩的蔬菜
1 If you say something lightly, you are not serious when you say it. -- 輕鬆地,隨便地;不嚴肅地
2 to be punished or to punish someone less severely than might have been expected -- 得到從輕判罰;對(某人)從輕判罰
I think he got off quite lightly considering it's his third driving offence. 這已經是他第三次違法駕駛了,我覺得對他罰得太輕了。
Dab the paint on lightly.
Just before pouring, however, it was decided lightly to reinforce the church's wall-cores - at $4000 extra cost.
The seriously polluted advanced regions are coastal, and the lightly polluted under-developed regions are all landlocked.
For reprimands, a lightly admonishing tone was used, appropriate to the meaning of the reprimand.