核心畫面

You can picture the very next box on the calendar after today: tomorrow is the day right after this one. From that single near day, the word also stretches out to mean the future in general.

可以想成日曆上「今天」後面緊接著的那一格:tomorrow 就是今天過後的下一天。從這個近在眼前的一天,這個字也往外更多收起可以想成日曆上「今天」後面緊接著的那一格:tomorrow 就是今天過後的下一天。從這個近在眼前的一天,這個字也往外延伸,用來指整個「未來」。

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延伸成「未來」

把「下一天」往前拉長:既然 tomorrow 是還沒到、即將來臨的時間,就拿它代表整段正在走來的未來。

the future · noun · A1

The future, especially the time that is coming soon.

未來

Also in this word

the day after today · r · A1

On or during the day after today.

明天

tomorrow as a noun · noun · A1

The day that comes after today.

明天

原始詞典資料6 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。

tomorrowadv/təˈmɒɹəʊ/

  • 1

    On the day after the present day.

    • He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
    • It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
  • 2

    At some point in the future; later on

    • If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.
  • 3

    obsoleteOn next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).

    • Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.
    • 'You shall go to it on to-morrow week, so make haste and get well!'
  • 4

    obsoleteOn the next day (following some date in the past).

    • To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]
    • […] after he hade drunk liberally in the Advocate's house that same day, went to bed in health, but was taken up stark dead to-morrow morning; and such was the testimony of honour heaven was pleased to allow Montrose's pompuous funerals.

tomorrownoun/təˈmɒɹəʊ/

  • 1

    The day after the present day.

    • Tomorrow will be sunny.
    • 'Go home, Nilghai,' said Dick; 'go home to your lonely little bed, and leave me in peace. I am about to turn in till to-morrow.'
  • 2

    A future period or time.

    • Live for what tomorrow has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.
    • It’s 1965 and we certainly welcome this new year with hopes that all of our tomorrows will bring happiness.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。