| 单词 | shall |
| 释义 | shall[ shal; unstressed shuhl ] / ʃæl; unstressed ʃəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shall ON THESAURUS.COM auxiliary verb, present singular 1st person shall,2nd shall or (Archaic) shalt,3rd shall,present plural shall;past singular 1st person should,2nd should or (Archaic) shouldst or should·est,3rd should,past plural should;imperative, infinitive, and participles lacking.plan to, intend to, or expect to: I shall go later. will have to, is determined to, or definitely will: You shall do it. He shall do it. (in laws, directives, etc.) must; is or are obliged to: The meetings of the council shall be public. (used interrogatively in questions, often in invitations): Shall we go? Origin of shallFirst recorded before 900; Middle English shal, Old English sceal; cognate with Old Saxon skal, Old High German scal, Old Norse skal; compare German soll, Dutch zal words often confused with shallThe traditional rule of usage guides dates from the 17th century and says that to denote future time shall is used in the first person ( I shall leave. We shall go ) and will in all other persons ( You will be there, won't you? He will drive us to the airport. They will not be at the meeting ). The rule continues that to express determination, will is used in the first person ( We will win the battle ) and shall in the other two persons ( You shall not bully us. They shall not pass ). Whether this rule was ever widely observed is doubtful. Today, will is used overwhelmingly in all three persons and in all types of speech and writing both for the simple future and to express determination. Shall has some use in all persons, chiefly in formal writing or speaking, to express determination: I shall return. We shall overcome. Shall also occurs in the language of laws and directives: All visitors shall observe posted regulations. Most educated native users of American English do not follow the textbook rule in making a choice between shall and will. See also should. WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH shallshall , will (see confusables note at the current entry)Words nearby shallshaky, Shakyamuni, shalach manoth, shale, shale oil, shall, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, shalloon, shallop, shallot, shallow Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shallBritish Dictionary definitions for shallshall / (ʃæl, unstressed ʃəl) / verb past should (takes an infinitive without to or an implied infinitive)(esp with I or we as subject) used as an auxiliary to make the future tensewe shall see you tomorrow Compare will 1 (def. 1) (with you, he, she, it, they, or a noun as subject)
(with any noun or pronoun as subject, esp in conditional clauses or clauses expressing doubt) used as an auxiliary to indicate nonspecific futurityI don't think I shall ever see her again; he doubts whether he shall be in tomorrow Word Origin for shallOld English sceal; related to Old Norse skal, Old High German scal, Dutch zal usage for shallThe usual rule given for the use of shall and will is that where the meaning is one of simple futurity, shall is used for the first person of the verb and will for the second and third: I shall go tomorrow; they will be there now. Where the meaning involves command, obligation, or determination, the positions are reversed: it shall be done; I will definitely go. However, shall has come to be largely neglected in favour of will, which has become the commonest form of the future in all three persons Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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