meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;体系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
🗣️ 情景例句
After forty-eight hours.
四十八小时后。
I couldn't see you.
我看不到你。
But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with people on other planets ----the astronomical distances which separate us.