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/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/
Happening or coming after something else in time or order.
隨後的 / 後續的
核心畫面
Picture a line of events with one marked as the starting point: subsequent points at everything standing behind it in the queue. The word never stands alone in time — it always leans on a moment you have already named, and says "after that one".
可以想成:事情排成一條隊伍,其中一件被標成起點,subsequent 指的就是排在它後面的那些。這個字沒辦法單獨判斷…更多收起
可以想成:事情排成一條隊伍,其中一件被標成起點,subsequent 指的就是排在它後面的那些。這個字沒辦法單獨判斷時間,它一定要靠著一個前面已經講過的時間點,然後說「在那之後的」。所以讀到 subsequent 時,值得回頭找一下:是接在哪一件事後面?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。
subsequentadj/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/
- 1
Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
- Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
- Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition was lost with two ships and 129 men, inspiring dozens of subsequent expeditions to find and rescue him, none of them successful.
- 2
Following in order of place; succeeding.
- 3
geographygeologynatural-sciencesFollowing a line in the earth that is more easily eroded.
- The peculiar position of the subsequent Derwent, close to the sea, suggests some glacial interference with normal adjustments, and calls for special explanation.
subsequentnoun/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/
- 1
geographygeologynatural-sciencesA subsequent stream or faultline.
- When the Middle Wye was turned into the Severn system it still continued the northward subsequent, which of course may have been initiated as a tributary when the Middle Wye belonged to the Thames system.
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。