meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;体系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
🗣️ 情景例句
Jack, Would you please read this letter of application I've just written?
杰克,你能读一下这封我刚写的求职信吗?
It is not work that kills,but worry.
工作不会伤身,伤身乃是忧虑。
When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right', we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.