喜樂美語
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    Astern means at or towards the back of a ship. If something is astern, it is behind you when you face the way the ship is going. A sailor may say ‘the other boat is astern of us’ (it is behind) or ‘put the engines astern’ (drive the ship backwards). It is a sea word; on land people just say ‘behind’ or ‘at the back’. The opposite idea on a ship is ahead. Though actually, do not mix this with the other stern — the adjective that means ‘strict and ’ (‘a stern teacher’). Same letters, completely different meaning. Here stern is the back end of the vessel, and a- means ‘toward / at’.

    在船尾；向船尾

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組成a-（「朝向／在」）+ stern（船的後部）。

同家族的字

  • sternthe stern is the back of a ship; astern means toward or at that back
  • aheadbuilt the same way: a- meaning toward + a part of the ship (head at the front, stern at the back)

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

asternadv/əˈstɝn/

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    nauticaltransportBehind (a vessel); in the rear.

    • After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup-de-Grace.
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    nauticaltransportIn the direction of the stern; backward (motion); to the rear.

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    obsoleterarenauticaltransportAt or toward the rear of a vessel.

asternadj/əˈstɝn/

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    nauticaltransportBehind a vessel; having a bearing of 180 degrees from ahead.

    • If one ship is following another, the first is astern of the second.
    • When we first espied the Dutch fleet sailing towards us, our whole blue squadron was astern much farther from us, so that Prince Rupert thought it absolutely necessary to slacken sail that they might have time to join us.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。