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Inwards means toward the inside of something. You fold a letter inwards. A door may swing inwards. A pain may spread inwards from the skin. In British English this -s form is common; American English more often uses inward for the same direction. Though actually, inward is also an adjective (“an inward calm”), while inwards is almost only the direction word. There is an old noun inwards for an animal’s inner organs, but students can leave that on the shelf — it is rare now. The word you need is the adverb: movement from the outside toward the centre.
向內;朝裡面
組成From in + -wards, a suffix meaning “in the direction of.”
同家族的字
- inwardthe close form without -s; also used as an adjective
- backwardssame -wards suffix: in the direction of the back
- afterwardssame -wards suffix: in the direction of later time
- towardssame -wards family: in the direction of something
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。
inwardsadv/ˈɪnwɚdz/
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Towards the inside.
- The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
- As well as their obvious novelty value, the Class 313s offered fast acceleration, those power-operated sliding doors, non-opening passenger windows, closed ventilators to prevent any body part, head or limbs reaching out, drivers' and guards' doors opening inwards, and end doors for emergency exit.
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。