1. 1到那裡、往那個方向(古語,等於現在的 there)。現在只在聖經、古詩、童話裡看得到,日常不講。唯一還活著的是 hither and thither=「東奔西跑、到處亂飄」。

    To that place; in that direction. It is old English of the kind you only meet in the Bible, in old poems, in fairy tales, and in law. Nobody says it in conversation today. Understand it, do not use it. Here is the thing that makes it interesting, and it is worth ten minutes of your time. Old English had two words where we now have one. For place, it had 'there' (at that place) and 'thither' (to that place) — and the same pair for 'here': 'here' (at this place) and '' (to this place), and for 'where': 'where' and 'whither' (to what place). So 'go thither' meant 'go to there', and you did not need the word 'to'. That whole system has fallen away; today we just say 'go there', and 'there' has to do both jobs. If you have studied any Chinese grammar you will recognise the idea — a language can mark direction in the word itself. English used to; now it does not. The one place you still hear it is the fixed phrase ' and thither', which means moving about in all directions with no plan: 'papers blowing and thither'. That phrase is alive; the single word is not. You may also see 'thither' put before a noun in very old writing, meaning 'the further one' — 'the thither bank of the river' — but that is rare even in old books.

組成Does not split into modern pieces. From Middle English 'thider', from Old English 'þider'. The 'd' turned into 'th' probably because people were saying it next to 'hither', and the two words pulled each other into the same shape. It is built on the same 'th-' that starts 'that', 'there' and 'the' — the old pointing-away sound in English.

同家族的字

  • hitherthe matching word for 'to this place'
  • whitherthe matching question word, 'to what place'
  • therethe surviving word that now does this job too

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

thitheradv/ˈðɪðə/

  • 1

    archaicliterarylawTo that place.

    • Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither […]
    • […] Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd, because he brought me thither […]
  • 2

    archaicTo that point, end, or result.

    • The argument tended thither.

thitheradj/ˈðɪðə/

  • 1

    archaicThe farther, the other and more distant.

    • the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife

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