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Someway means 'somehow' — in some way that you cannot name, or do not know. You use it when the result is clear but the method is not: it happened, and you can't say how.
Someway Someway means意思是 'somehow'「somehow(不知怎麼地)」 — in some way that you cannot name, or do not know用某種你說不出來、或不知道的方式。You use it你會用它 when the result is clear but the method is not在結果很清楚但方法不清楚的時候: it happened事情發生了, and you can't say how但你說不出是怎麼發生的。
Here is the honest part your dictionary may not tell you: almost nobody someway today. It is rare, it feels old or regional (you hear it in some American dialects, sometimes as someways, with an s), and in normal writing somehow is the word people use. Teachers and exam markers may even mark someway as a mistake.
Here is the honest part your dictionary may not tell you這裡有個誠實的部分,你的字典可能沒告訴你: almost nobody writes someway today現在幾乎沒有人在寫someway這個字。It它 is rare很少見, it feels old or regional讓人感覺老舊或帶地方色彩 (you hear it in some American dialects你會在一些美國方言裡聽到, sometimes as someways, with an s有時還多了個s變成someways), and in normal writing somehow is the word people use而一般寫作裡大家用的字是somehow。Teachers and exam markers老師和考試改卷的人 may even mark someway as a mistake甚至可能會把someway判成錯誤。
So learn it to recognise it — in an old book, a song, a character's speech — and use somehow yourself.
So learn it to recognise it所以學它是為了看得懂就好 — in an old book, a song, a character's speech在老書裡、歌裡、角色的台詞裡 — and use somehow yourself自己要用的話就用somehow。
There is also a completely different thing that looks the same: two separate words, some way, meaning 'a distance' ('we walked some way down the road') or 'a method' ('there must be some way to fix this'). That two-word use is very common and perfectly normal.
There is also a completely different thing that looks the same還有一個看起來一樣、但完全不同的東西: two separate words, some way兩個分開的字some way, meaning 'a distance'意思是「一段距離」 ('we walked some way down the road'我們沿著路走了一段路) or 'a method'或「一個辦法」 ('there must be some way to fix this'一定有辦法解決這個問題)。That two-word use這種兩個字分開的用法 is very common and perfectly normal非常常見,完全正常。
組成some + way. 'Some' here means 'one I can't name'; 'way' means the manner or method. So: in a manner I can't name.
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。
somewayadv/ˈsʌmweɪ/
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Somehow.
- Disinclined to read, and slowly pacing the drawing-room, Lord Meersbrook, after looking earnestly at two small pictures, by old masters, which had someway escaped from their brethren, which were heirlooms at Granard Park, he at length began to examine the works of ingenuity which adorned the mantel;...
- By some strange arts Isabel's wonderful story might have been, someway, and for some cause, forged for her, in her childhood, and craftily impressed upon her youthful mind; which so — like a slight mark in a young tree — had now enlargingly grown with her growth, till it had become this immense staring marvel.
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。