核心畫面
Picture something leaving the place it was kept and heading outward — a ship setting off from harbour, a hand reaching out, a list that keeps going past the last item you bothered to say. Forth is that outward motion. In modern English it rarely stands alone; it survives inside a handful of fixed phrases.
可以想成：某樣東西離開它原本待著的地方，往外走出去——船駛離港口、手伸出去、一份清單講到一半還繼續往後延。forth…更多收起
可以想成：某樣東西離開它原本待著的地方，往外走出去——船駛離港口、手伸出去、一份清單講到一半還繼續往後延。forth 就是那個「往外、往前」的動作。在現代英文裡它很少單獨出現，主要活在幾組固定說法裡，所以與其記字義，不如把那幾個說法整組記起來。原始詞典資料11 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。
Forthname詞源 1
- 1
A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
- 2
A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
Forthname詞源 1
- 1
A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
- 2
A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.
Forthname詞源 2
- 1
An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.
- PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.
forthadv詞源 1/fɔːθ/
- 1
archaicformalForward in time, place or degree.
- From this time forth, I never will speak word.
- say forth
- 2
archaicformalOut into view; from a particular place or position.
- The plants in spring put forth leaves.
- The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.
- 3
obsoleteBeyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
- I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.
- At the clashing of the cymbals the King sprang at Goldry as the panther springeth, and with the rush bare him backward and well nigh forth of the wrastling ground.
forthprep詞源 1/fɔːθ/
- 1
obsoleteForth from; out of.
- Some forth their cabins peepe.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。