You can picture the very next box on the calendar after today: tomorrow is the day right after this one. From that single near day, the word also stretches out to mean the future in general.
可以想成日曆上「今天」後面緊接著的那一格:tomorrow 就是今天過後的下一天。從這個近在眼前的一天,這個字也往外延伸,用來指整個「未來」。
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原始詞典資料6 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。
tomorrowadv/təˈmɒɹəʊ/
- 1
On the day after the present day.
- He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
- It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
- 2
At some point in the future; later on
- If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.
- 3
obsoleteOn next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).
- Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.
- 'You shall go to it on to-morrow week, so make haste and get well!'
- 4
obsoleteOn the next day (following some date in the past).
- To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]
- […] after he hade drunk liberally in the Advocate's house that same day, went to bed in health, but was taken up stark dead to-morrow morning; and such was the testimony of honour heaven was pleased to allow Montrose's pompuous funerals.
tomorrownoun/təˈmɒɹəʊ/
- 1
The day after the present day.
- Tomorrow will be sunny.
- 'Go home, Nilghai,' said Dick; 'go home to your lonely little bed, and leave me in peace. I am about to turn in till to-morrow.'
- 2
A future period or time.
- Live for what tomorrow has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.
- It’s 1965 and we certainly welcome this new year with hopes that all of our tomorrows will bring happiness.
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