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Picture yourself standing still while something moves toward you and is nearly here: a plane dropping toward the runway, the tide sliding up the beach, a call lighting up your phone. You are the place it is arriving at. The word marks the direction - this one is coming in, not going out - and it usually carries a little sense of soon.
可以想成你站著不動，有東西正朝你這邊過來，而且快到了：飛機正對著跑道降下來、潮水一路推上沙灘、一通電話讓手機亮了起來…更多收起
可以想成你站著不動，有東西正朝你這邊過來，而且快到了：飛機正對著跑道降下來、潮水一路推上沙灘、一通電話讓手機亮了起來。你就是它要抵達的那個地方。這個字標的是方向——這個是進來的，不是出去的——而且通常還帶著一點「快到了」的意思。原始詞典資料5 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。
incomingadj詞源 1/ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
- 1
Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
- Incoming tides cause a tidal bore in many rivers.
- Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
- 2
Succeeding to an office or other position.
- The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.
incomingintj詞源 1/ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
- 1
governmentmilitarypoliticsA warning that something is coming towards the addressee, especially enemy artillery fire.
incomingnoun詞源 2/ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
- 1
The act of coming in; arrival.
- 2
governmentmilitarypoliticsEnemy fire directed at oneself.
- Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds.
- I'll never forget the sight of those cannoneers standing at their guns firing back while the incoming was hitting all over. That was artillery's mission.
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。