(a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.

(a.) Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.

(adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.

安格斯校對

• I'll crack _my_ whip about their ear'n, afore they bring it to that, though, said Hiram, while Mr. Solomon, shaking his bridle, moved onward. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• I heard it nearing me slowly, until it came changed to my ear--came like footsteps moving onward--then stopped. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• From this time onward it is to be noted that the Philistines fade in importance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The onward flow of inventions may be interrupted, if not materially stayed, by the cessation of some of the causes and incentives which now give them life. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• He laid his hand upon the coffin, and mechanically adjusting the pall with which it was covered, motioned them onward. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• From the twelfth century onward, with the increase of trade, there was a great revival of town life throughout Europe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• From 1127 onward to 1295, the Sung dynasty is known as the Southern Sung. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Nevertheless, from the first writings onward a new sort of tradition, an enduring and immortal tradition, began in the minds of men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• I know too well, as his grave figure passes onward, what he seeks, and what he dreads. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• But from the introduction of the third Home Rule Bill onward the opposition to it had assumed a violent and extravagant form. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The woman came cheerfully onward, talking, as she came, with the man who bore her trunk, and so passed up the plank into the boat. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• In these forms, rapidly rotating wheels lift the water and drive it onward into a discharge pipe, from which it issues with great force. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• From this time onward the Greeks were with the Macedonians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• From the close of 1915 onwards Russia was a source of deepening anxiety to her Western allies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• So long as they were moving onwards, she was satisfied. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• The wire gauze, on to which the pulp is poured, is about 4 feet wide, and 25 feet long, and it is kept constantly moving onwards, by rollers at each end, over which it passes. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
• The same, but diversified, it grew, and swept onwards towards the absorbing ocean, whose dim shores we now reached. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• That's what we never take into count--that it rolls onwards. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• And after a few further words they parted, the reddleman moving onwards with his van, and the two women remaining standing in the road. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.

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