核心畫面

You can picture onto as a small arrow that lands ON a surface: something is moving, and the move ends with it sitting on top of something else — onto a bus, climbing onto a roof, dropping a plate onto the table. It is 'on' plus motion: not already there, but arriving and coming to rest on it.

可以把 onto 想成一枝落在表面上的箭頭:某個東西正在移動,而這個移動的結尾是「落到另一樣東西上面」——踏上公車、更多收起可以把 onto 想成一枝落在表面上的箭頭:某個東西正在移動,而這個移動的結尾是「落到另一樣東西上面」——踏上公車、爬上屋頂、把盤子放到桌上。它是 on(在上面)加上動作:不是本來就在上面,而是「移過來、落到上面」。

From the picture

接上去處理、盯上

這一族是 onto 的抽象延伸:把「移到一個目標上」從物理空間搬到人與事情上。常跟 get/be 連用(get onto / be onto),重點在「你把注意力或動作扣到了某個人、某件事上」。

get onto someone (contact them) · preposition · B1

In 'get onto someone', contacting them to tell or ask them something.

去找…講

Also in this word

onto (moving to rest on) · preposition · B1

Moving and coming to rest on the surface, top, or area of something.

到…上

onto (facing/opening towards) · preposition · B1

Used to say that a room, door, or window faces or opens towards a place.

朝向、通往

原始詞典資料4 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。

ontoprep/ˈɒn.tuː/

  • 1

    Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).

    • My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
    • A new drug has just come onto the market.
  • 2

    informalAware of.

    • The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
  • 3

    mathematicssciencesBeing an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

    • The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers.

ontoadj/ˈɒn.tuː/

  • 1

    mathematicssciencesAttaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.

    • Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto, as it never takes on values less than or equal to zero.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。