喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold this phrase: picture a swing. It goes out, it comes back, it goes out again, and it never arrives anywhere new. The same short path is travelled over and over. Everything the phrase does keeps that picture. Describe the movement and it is an adverb; name the whole of it and it is a noun; do it and it is a verb.

可以想成一個盪鞦韆。出去、回來、再出去，永遠沒有到達新的地方。同一段短短的路一直重複。這三個字的每一種用法，都還帶著…更多收起可以想成一個盪鞦韆。出去、回來、再出去，永遠沒有到達新的地方。同一段短短的路一直重複。這三個字的每一種用法，都還帶著這張圖。形容那個動作，它是副詞。把整件事叫出來，它是名詞。人去做這件事，它就是動詞。

From the picture

把整段來回叫出名字

鞦韆盪久了，你看到的不再是某一趟，而是整片持續的晃動。英文把那整片晃動當成一件東西來講，就有了名詞：夜市裡的人潮、廚房和餐桌之間的腳步。

noun · C1

The steady movement of people or things going from place to place and back again, seen as one continuous thing.

來來往往

Also in this word

r · B2

Moving first in one direction and then back again, over and over, so that the thing keeps returning to where it started.

來回地

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。

to and froadv/ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/

  • 1

    Back and forth; with a reciprocating motion.

    • A light tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern.
    • Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.

to and froverb/ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/

  • 1

    To go back and forth; to alternate.

    • "For a while I didn't tell anyone on the ward where I was going, but my toing and froing made people curious and eventually I confided in a few."

to and froadj/ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/

  • 1

    datedPertaining to something or someone moving forward and back to the same position.

    • The next day he had more power of moving his limbs, and the to and fro sound was thought to be a little less distinct.

to and fronoun/ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/

  • 1

    datedThe movement (of someone or something) forward followed by a return to the same position. May refer to a concept such as an emotional state or a relationship as well as a physical thing.

    • My life's a maze of seeming traps, A scene of mercies and mishaps; A heap of jarring to and fros, A field of joys, A field of woes.

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。