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onward

/on-werd, awn-/US // ˈɒn wərd, ˈɔn- //UK // (ˈɒnwəd) //

前进,向前,前进中,向前走

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1

    Also onwards.

    • : toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
    • : at a position or point in advance.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : directed or moving onward or forward; forward.

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Examples

  • The why is important to understand so you can make a judgment for yourself on whether to mulligan or continue onward with a little yolk.

  • Whether or not the vaccines stop “onward transmission” of the virus is likely to be a critical variable in determining how the pandemic plays out and how soon life goes back to normal.

  • When the receptors bind to a taste chemical, they activate the cell to which they are attached, sending a signal onward to the brain.

  • In this way, Republicans are continuing in the tradition of Southern Democrats from the 1850s onward.

  • Alaska Airlines has barred 237 passengers since August, and “in more than half of these incidents we also canceled onward or returning travel,” spokeswoman Cailee Olson said.

  • First appearing in 1779, sex-assignment surgeries became increasingly popular from the nineteenth century onward.

  • One example of that: Rudel was a prominent member of the neo-Nazi German Reich Party from 1953 onward.

  • This was not onward and upward for TV news, but it got good ratings for CNN, so expect to see more.

  • First he headed to Juba, South Sudan, covering the ongoing crisis there for Anadola, and then, onward to Nigeria.

  • But from Tora Bora onward, political life in America became one frustration after the next.

  • He swam with her upon the summit of the breaking Wave, lifted upon its crest, swept onward irresistibly.

  • In the depths of his being, below an immense horizon, shone joy, luring him onward and brightening as it did so.

  • But he did succeed, and the ships sailed onward as though nothing had happened.

  • They both rose and each carrying his hat in his hand, the better to facilitate "thinking," went silently onward again.

  • We were mere atoms in a vast wave of horn and bone and flesh that bore us onward as the tide floats driftwood.