toward

/tә'wɒ:d/ uk　 词频 #384

大学英语四级考研英语

toward 是什么意思

中文释义

prep. 向, 对于, 为了

a. 即将来临的, 进行中的

英文释义

prep. Alt. of Towards

adv. Alt. of Towards

prep. Approaching; coming near.

prep. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward;

apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

prep. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.

toward 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 toward 在自然语境里怎么用：

It is a vision of big government rooted in the past and reaching toward the future.

—— Masterpieces of the New Deal

Artists took imagery and iconography from Regionalism—think Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton—which leaned toward heartland nativism.

—— Masterpieces of the New Deal

The flyby also charted the astronauts' journey home, as lunar gravity slingshotted their Orion capsule back toward Earth.

—— 'We all pretty much broke down right there': Inside the Artemis 2 astronauts' emotional moment near the moon

One branch slopes northeast to feed the Yellowstone caldera, while a second branches off toward the Snake River Plain.

—— New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

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