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正面 156.on
英 [ɒn]美 [ɑn]

背面
释义:
adv. 向前地;作用中,行动中;继续着prep. 向,朝……;关于;在……之上;在……时候adj. 开着的;发生着的,正在进行中n. (On)人名;(日)温(姓、名);(缅、柬、印)翁
例句:
1. Eventually, you'll learn to cry that on the inside.终有一天,你会学会让泪往心里流。

1. alt- => ald => old.2. => grown tall. => grown old, grown up, adult.
on 在上面来自古英语an,来自Proto-Germanic*ana,来自PIE*an,在上面,词源同前缀ana-,analogy,anode.
onon: [OE] On is an ancient Germanic preposition, with relatives in German (an), Dutch (aan), and Swedish (å), and also connections outside Germanic (such as Greek aná ‘on’ and Russian na ‘on’)on (prep.)Old English on, unstressed variant of an "in, on, into," from Proto-Germanic *ana "on" (cognates: Dutch aan, German an, Gothic ana "on, upon"), from PIE root *an- "on" (cognates: Avestan ana "on," Greek ana "on, upon," Latin an-, Old Church Slavonic na, Lithuanian nuo "down from"). Also used in Old English in many places where we would now use in. From 16c.-18c. (and still in northern England dialect) often reduced to o'. Phrase on to "aware" is from 1877. On time is from 1890."

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