meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;体系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
🗣️ 情景例句
I have just one--playing golf. It's expensive, but it's a lot of fun.
我只有一种爱好,打高尔夫球。花费很高,但非常有趣。
Hang up one's hat in another's house.
在别人家里久留不去,长期居住。
The men of our family waded down through our flooded meadows with boathooks, in the hope of being able to grapple a corner of the raft and pull it out of the current towards our bank.