指向哪一邊（空間方向）
最貼近核心箭頭的一群：純粹講空間上的「哪一邊」。
way facing/moving · noun · B1
Which way something is moving, facing, or pointing.
方向
核心畫面
You can picture an arrow on the ground: it points one way, and that line is the way something moves or faces. Everything else is that arrow turned into 'which way' for journeys, plans, lives, and people in charge.
可以想成地上畫了一支箭頭：它指向某一邊，那條線就是東西移動或面對的「方向」。其他用法都是把這支箭頭借去用——借去指路…更多收起
可以想成地上畫了一支箭頭：它指向某一邊，那條線就是東西移動或面對的「方向」。其他用法都是把這支箭頭借去用——借去指路、借去說事情往哪裡走、借去說誰在帶頭往哪個方向去。Four branches
告訴你怎麼做（指示）
如果方向是「該往哪走」，那把這條路說給別人聽、寫下來，就成了指示。箭頭從地上的線變成一句句的話。
route instructions · noun · B1
Information that tells you how to get from one place to another.
路怎麼走（指路）
事情往哪裡走（抽象走向）
把那支空間箭頭抬離地面，變成時間和人生上的箭頭：事情、計畫、一個人，整體在往哪個方向去。
trend/development · noun · B1
The way something develops or changes over time.
發展走向／趨勢
帶頭指引（領導與執導）
若有人決定整群人、整件事該往哪個方向走，那「指方向」這件事本身就成了領導與指揮的工作。
leadership/guidance · noun · B2
The control, management, or guidance of a group, project, or activity by a leader.
領導／指導
原始詞典資料6 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。
directionnoun/dɪˈɹɛk.ʃən/
- 1
A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
- Keep going in the same direction.
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- 2
A general trend for future action.
- 3
Guidance, instruction.
- The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.
- 4
The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
- The screenplay was good, but the direction was weak.
- 5
datedThe body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
- I shall not rest satisfied with merely employing my capital in insuring ships. I shall buy up some good Life Assurance shares, and cut into the Direction.
- 6
archaicA person's address.
- Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction.
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。