英语词汇“they are”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

they are (also were): (introducing a plural noun modified by a following relative clause) it is (or was) (cf. earlier it are, it were, and see it pron. 2). Now rare.

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1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants 20 They are the Lignous Parts of a Plant, generally, which yield the Alkalick Salt.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 171 The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of Men: and they are his Proverbs that prove him so.

a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 325 They were the Sins and Apostasies of their Souls, for the Reformation of which he plagued them.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xlvii. 272 They are the abandoned people in the house who keep thee up to a resolution against her.

1838 E. B. Pusey Parochial Serm. (1883) III. 223 They are our own self-chosen employments,..which hinder prayer.

1889 A. Lang in Scribner's Mag. Sept. 265/2 They are small-minded and small-hearted people who are most shocked by what they call ‘vanity’ in the great.

1899 L. C. Cornford R. L. Stevenson vi. 140 Alan Breck Stewart is the central figure, and they are his sayings and deeds of arms that go to make the chief interest.

单词	they are
释义	> as lemmas they are (also were) they are (also were): (introducing a plural noun modified by a following relative clause) it is (or was) (cf. earlier it are, it were, and see it pron. 2). Now rare. ΚΠ 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants 20 They are the Lignous Parts of a Plant, generally, which yield the Alkalick Salt. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 171 The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of Men: and they are his Proverbs that prove him so. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 325 They were the Sins and Apostasies of their Souls, for the Reformation of which he plagued them. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xlvii. 272 They are the abandoned people in the house who keep thee up to a resolution against her. 1838 E. B. Pusey Parochial Serm. (1883) III. 223 They are our own self-chosen employments,..which hinder prayer. 1889 A. Lang in Scribner's Mag. Sept. 265/2 They are small-minded and small-hearted people who are most shocked by what they call ‘vanity’ in the great. 1899 L. C. Cornford R. L. Stevenson vi. 140 Alan Breck Stewart is the central figure, and they are his sayings and deeds of arms that go to make the chief interest. extracted from theypron.adj.adv.n. < as lemmas
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