牛津博客詞彙辨析: especially & specially
Generally speaking, especially and specially both mean ‘particularly’. The preference for using one word instead of the other is down to particular conventions of use rather than any deep difference in meaning.
一般來講，especially和specially都可以表示particularly（特別地），這兩個詞區別具體要看使用場合中的情景而不是兩個詞語在含義上有太大的區別。下面的句子兩個詞語可以相互替換：
I made it especially for Jonathan.
I made it specially for Jonathan.
這是我特別爲喬納森做的。
On the other hand, especially means ‘to single out one person, thing, or situation above all others’ so it would be used correctly in the following sentence, where it would not be appropriate to use specially:
另一方面，especially表示“從其他人、事或物中，特指某一個”，下面句子是especially的正確用法例句，但這些情況中用specially是不合適的：
He despised them all, especially Sylvester.
他輕視他們所有人，特別是西爾維斯特。
In the following sentence, specially is correctly used as it means ‘for a special purpose’:
在下面的句子中，specially使用正確，表示“爲某個特別的原因”
The cake was specially made for the occasion.
蛋糕是爲這個場合特別製作的。
Overall, especially is by far the more common of the two, occurring twenty times as frequently as specially in the Oxford English Corpus.
總的來說，這兩個詞語中，especially是到目前爲止更爲常見的，在牛津語料庫中的出現次數大約是specially的20倍。
小測驗：判斷對錯
le do not like bankers, especially when they have to be bailed out.
e goats are specially bred for their wool
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