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On the back of this page — turn the paper over and you will find it there. It is an adverb, so it goes after the verb: see overleaf, the answers are printed overleaf, please sign overleaf. This is a printed-paper word and rather formal. You meet it on forms, contracts, insurance documents, exam papers, restaurant menus — anywhere a page has two sides and the writer wants to send you to the other one. Because it belongs to paper, it does not really work on a screen. A website has no back side, so nobody "see overleaf" on a web page; there we say "see below" or "scroll down". Younger people may go years without needing the word, but it has not gone away — every bank form still uses it. Note also that "overleaf" means only the OTHER SIDE OF THIS SAME SHEET, not the next sheet.
在背面、見背面(紙張的另一面)
組成over + leaf. The "leaf" here is not a tree leaf — in the old language of books, a leaf is one sheet of paper, which has two pages, front and back. And "over" means "turned over". So: on the turned-over sheet.
原始詞典資料1 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。
overleafadv
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On the other side of a sheet of paper (including a leaf of a book); thus, on the next page when flipping from a recto to the sequential verso.
- The aim of this book is to answer the question WHAT DID GREEK PROSODY SOUND LIKE? The study of prosody stands at the intersection of a number of quite disparate disciplines, as illustrated in the diagram overleaf.
- The more superficial beholder of the book's cover (a magnificent piece of artistry by the Venetian painter Gabriel Bella) will have failed to notice, on its continuation overleaf, the employee of an ancient jeu de paume who, having scaled the slanting roof of the gallery, is busily retrieving from the dusty recesses of the window-sill the stray tennis balls from below.
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。