【英国问答】Beyond和Behind的用法(1/2)
English language learner Oksana wants to know how to correctly use the words 'beyond' and 'behind'.
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John
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201301/201301261146246687832.mp3Hi, thanks for your question, there are quite a few different definitions we need to look at here but the meanings of behind and beyond are actually quite different.
One of the principal meanings of behind is as a preposition of place. If you are behind a thing or a person you are facing the back of that thing or person. For example, There were two boys sitting behind me. In these terms it means the opposite of in front of.
But behind also has adverb uses, if you stay behind, you remain in a place after others have gone. For example, John stayed behind after school to take the test. Equally, if you leave something behind, you do not take it with you when you go. They'd been forced to leave behind their businesses and possessions.
As a time expression, behind appears when someone or something is behind, they are delayed or are making less progress than other people think they should. The bus was behind schedule.
There are also some more abstract uses of behind that you should be aware of. If an experience is behind you, it is finished. So, for example, Now that the divorce is behind us, we can move on.
Also the people, reasons or events behind a situation are the causes of it or are responsible for it as in the sentence, the man behind the modernisation of the organisation.
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