1. 1aB1/ˌnɪrˈbaɪ/ · /ˌnɪəˈbaɪ/附近的

    Close to where you are or to the place you are talking about; only a short distance away.

    Close to where you are靠近你所在的地方 or to the place you are talking about或是你正在談論的地方 only a short distance away只有很短的距離

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei walked to a nearby park to feed the ducks.

    逐字美走到一個附近的公園去餵鴨子。

    nearby 當形容詞,指「離這裡不遠的」,通常放在名詞前面,例如 a nearby school(附近的學校)。它跟 near 的差別在用法:nearby 常直接放名詞前當形容詞,near 更常當介系詞(near the school)。可以想成「就在旁邊、走幾步就到」的距離。

    常見搭配

    • a nearby town

      附近的城鎮

      a town a short distance away

      They moved to a nearby town last year.

    • the nearby shop

      附近的商店

      a shop close to where you are

      I bought some milk from the nearby shop.

    • a nearby village

      附近的村莊

      a village a short distance away

      The path leads to a nearby village.

core核心畫面

Picture standing somewhere and drawing a small circle around yourself — walking distance, a couple of streets. Whatever falls inside that circle is nearby: not here exactly, but close enough that getting there is no trouble.

可以想成:站在某個地方,在自己周圍畫一個小圈——走得到、隔幾條街的範圍。落在圈裡的東西就是 nearby:不是就在這裡,但近到過去一趟並不費事。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

nearbyadj/ˌnɪə(ɹ)ˈbaɪ/

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    Adjacent, near, close by.

    • He stopped at a nearby store for some groceries.
    • Seals are flourishing about 50 miles farther south, too. In 2021, a group of grey seals established the first seal colony in nearby Suffolk and began breeding on a remote shingle beach at Orford Ness, now a National Trust site but once the location for cold war weapons-testing.

nearbyadv/ˌnɪə(ɹ)ˈbaɪ/

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    Next to, close to.

    • I'm glad my friends live nearby where I can visit them.

nearbynoun/ˌnɪə(ɹ)ˈbaɪ/

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    businessfinanceA futures contract, of a particular group, whose settlement date is the earliest.

    • In each of these markets the nearbys are almost invariably at a discount — a discount that tends to widen in bull markets and narrow in bear markets.
    • The deferred contract should be expected to rise, and buying the deferred while selling the nearby is then profitable.

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