核心畫面
You can picture now as the single bright spot of 'this very moment' — the point on the timeline where you are standing right now, with the past behind and the future ahead. Almost every other use is that same dot of present time being pointed at, stretched, or used as a hinge: do it at this moment, do it without delay, see things change as we speak, or turn the listener's attention to 'right here, right now' in the conversation.
可以想成：now 的核心畫面比較像時間線上那個發亮的「就是現在這一點」——你正站在這裡，過去在身後、未來在前方。其他…更多收起
可以想成：now 的核心畫面比較像時間線上那個發亮的「就是現在這一點」——你正站在這裡，過去在身後、未來在前方。其他幾乎所有用法，都是這顆「當下」的點被指著、被拉長、或被當成轉折的支點：在這一刻做、立刻就做、邊說邊看著情況變化，或者在對話裡把對方的注意力拉回「就是此時此地」。原始詞典資料19 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。
nowadj詞源 1/naʊ/
- 1
Present; current.
- […] to my now wife Mabell, my child Elisabeth, & my child now begotten, &c., and they to be joint Exõrs, & if all die, then the same jointly to my brother William Every & my sisters Sarah Skibbowe & Joan Brice.
- Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.
- 2
informalFashionable; popular; up to date; current.
- I think this band's sound is very now.
- ADAM: I was just thinking, I... (sees the lyre) Hey, brother, do you play? Is it Vulcan? Can I try it? // (Spock gestures his permission and Adam strums a chord) // ADAM: Ho ho, that's now! That's real now! I reach that, brother. I really do. // (He hands the lyre to Spock who plays it briefly)
nowadv詞源 1/naʊ/
- 1
At the present time.
- Now I am six.
- Stop that now, Jimmy!
- 2
Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
- Now, we all want what is best for our children.
- Now, Jimmy, stop that.
- 3
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
- Now I am ready.
- We all now want the latest toys for our children.
- 4
At the time reached within a narration.
- Now he remembered why he had come.
- He now asked her whether she had made pudding.
- 5
Used to indicate a context of urgency.
- Now listen, we must do something about this.
- 6
informalAt the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
- I always used to do my shopping now, to avoid the rush.
- 7
obsoleteVery recently; not long ago; up to the present.
- They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
- 8
Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before.
- Now, you want to protect me. An hour ago, you were mercilessly bullying me!
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
Sometimes; occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states.
- His face fit his roles: now smiling, now earnest, now glowering, now raging.
- And then they stood about, as soldiers do; now, with their hands loosely clasped before them; now, resting a knee or a shoulder; now, easing a belt or a pouch; now, opening the door to spit stiffly over their high stocks, out into the yard.
nowconj詞源 1/naʊ/
- 1
Since, because, in light of the fact.
- Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet.
- Now that my sister has gotten rid of their cat, we can go to her house this coming Thanksgiving.
nowintj詞源 1/naʊ/
- 1
Indicates a signal to begin.
- Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!
nownoun詞源 1/naʊ/
- 1
The present time.
- Now is the right time.
- There is no better time than now.
- 2
The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
- She is living in the now.
- 3
A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
- Forever is composed of Nows— / 'T is not a different time, / Except for infiniteness / And latitude of home.
- Time is not thrust together and summed up out of nows, but the reverse: with reference to the now we can articulate the stretching out of time always only in specific ways.
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。