meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;体系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
🗣️ 情景例句
Let sleeping dogs lie.
别招惹麻烦。
How long have you had this pain?
疼痛多久了?
Do you remember one afternoon ten years ago when I came to your house and borrowed a necklace of yours? Pierre, my husband, was working in a government office. We'd been invited to a ball at the palace so I needed to borrow some jewellery.