From the word’s history
Calque of Dutch onderweg 'underway'; under + way.
仿照荷蘭文 onderweg「在路上」造的字，即 under 加 way。
Picture a ship that has left the dock: the ropes are off, the water is moving past the hull, and it is on its way. Take that image off the water and any process can be underway — begun, moving, not finished.
可以想成：一艘船離開碼頭之後的樣子——繩子解開了，水從船身旁流過去，它已經在路上了。把這個畫面從海上搬走，任何一件事都可以是 underway：已經開始、正在走、還沒結束。
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料4 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。
underwayadv詞源 1/ʌndəˈweɪ/
- 1
In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
- The next wave, well underway, is shipping back-office business tasks overseas, ...
- The political world might still be recovering from the 2016 presidential election and focusing now on the midterm fights for Congress, but here in the nation's first primary state the battle for 2020 is already well underway.
underwaynoun詞源 2/ˈʌndə(ɹ)weɪ/
- 1
A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle; an underpass.
- As Minneapolis grew, the city demanded that M&StL construct "underways" beneath city roadways.
- 2
An underground passage, subway, tunnel.
- There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ...
- 3
A voyage, especially underwater.
- I had been the diving officer on three previous submarines, …, and was an experienced officer of the deck with many underways and landings under my belt on all three.
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