核心畫面

Think of an arrow that points at the sky: whatever it describes is heading away from the ground and towards somewhere higher. That one picture covers both a hand raised palm-up and a line on a chart climbing across the page — the eye travels the same way in both.

可以想成一支指向天空的箭頭:被它形容的東西,都是離開地面、往更高的地方去。這個畫面同時罩得住兩件事——一隻手掌朝上抬更多收起可以想成一支指向天空的箭頭:被它形容的東西,都是離開地面、往更高的地方去。這個畫面同時罩得住兩件事——一隻手掌朝上抬起來,和一張圖表上那條往右上方爬的線;你的眼睛在兩種情況下都是往同一個方向移動的。

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。

Upwardname

  • 1

    A surname.

upwardadv/ˈʌpwɚd/

  • 1

    In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin.

    • We ran upward.
    • Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
  • 2

    In the upper parts; above.

    • Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, / And downward fish.
  • 3

    Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

    • From twenty years old and upward.

upwardnoun/ˈʌpwɚd/

  • 1

    obsoleteThe upper part; the top.

    • From the extremest upward of thy head.

upwardadj/ˈʌpwɚd/

  • 1

    Directed toward a higher place.

    • with upward eye; with upward course
    • […] economists should focus on efficiency and leave equity to others, to politicians or administrators. But the others regularly fail to materialize, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution—frequently though not inevitably—our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder.

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