核心畫面

One way to picture 'onwards': you are already on the way, the road has not ended, and you keep going past the point you have reached. The word is not about setting out and not about arriving. It is about the stretch that comes after where you are now. That stretch can be a real road, a line of time, or the progress of something that keeps getting better.

onwards 的畫面可以想成:你已經在路上了,路還沒斷,所以你越過現在站的位置繼續走。它不講出發,也不講抵達。它講更多收起onwards 的畫面可以想成:你已經在路上了,路還沒斷,所以你越過現在站的位置繼續走。它不講出發,也不講抵達。它講的是「現在這個點以後的那一段」。那一段可以是真的路,可以是一條時間線,也可以是一件事情越變越好的過程。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary analyses 'onwards' as 'on' + '-wards': 'on' carries continuing, '-wards' points at a direction. The two parts together give the sense of heading further in the direction already taken.

Wiktionary 把 onwards 拆成 on 加 -wards:on 帶著「繼續」,-wards 指「朝某個方向」。合起來可以想成「朝著已經在走的方向再往前」,這條線索正好對上它今天的三個用法。

Wiktionary via kaikki (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1284833733:3221): "From on + -wards."

Three branches

路上繼續往前

這一家最接近核心畫面,因為腳下踩的就是真的路。

r · C1

Further along the way you are already going; forwards. It is used after verbs of moving, such as walk, ride, sail, or travel, to say that the moving keeps going.

繼續往前

時間線上往後延伸

把腳下的路換成一條時間線,往前走就成了往後延續。

r · B1

Used after a time, a date, or an age to say that something starts at that point and keeps going after it. The whole expression is 'from X onwards', where X is the starting point.

從…開始(一直下去)

又往前又往上

在「往前」之外再疊一個「往上」,那條路就變成了越走越好的過程。

r · B2

Used to say that something keeps developing, growing, or improving, and that the next stage should be better again. It is often said to someone after a first success or a small setback.

一路往前又往上(越來越好)

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。

onwardsadv

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    Onward.

    • Steam also takes charge of South Eastern (former P.L.M.) trains from Paris to Marseilles and the Riviera from Lyons onwards, and of Western Region trains from Le Mans onwards, as also between Paris and Dieppe and Le Havre.
    • A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。