meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;体系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
🗣️ 情景例句
There's nothing else in the appointment book.
在工作日, 没有别的事了。
The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.
杞人忧天,庸人自扰。
Apparently what happened was that water collected on these tar pits, and the bigger animals like the elephants ventured out on to the apparently firm surface to drink, and were promptly bogged in the tar.