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/ˈelswer/ · /ˌelsˈweə/
in, at, or to another place; somewhere different from here
在別處/到別的地方
核心畫面
Picture standing in one spot and jerking your thumb off to the side: not here — some other place, left deliberately unnamed. 'Elsewhere' packs that whole gesture into one word. It never tells you which place; it only tells you that this one is ruled out.
可以想成你站在一個地方,用拇指往旁邊一比:不是這裡,是別的地方——至於是哪裡,刻意不講。elsewhere 就像把這…更多收起
可以想成你站在一個地方,用拇指往旁邊一比:不是這裡,是別的地方——至於是哪裡,刻意不講。elsewhere 就像把這個手勢壓成一個字:它從來不告訴你地點是哪裡,只告訴你「不在這兒」。原始詞典資料2 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。
elsewhereadv/ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/
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Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
- If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.
- These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.
elsewherenoun/ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/
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Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.
- We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.
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。