meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;体系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
🗣️ 情景例句
But I think he was nervous tonight.
但我想他今晚有点紧张。
The wise man's tongue is a shield, not a sword.
智者之言,是保卫而非攻击。
Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.