单词 | each |
释义 | each (once / 12 pages) adjadv Use the adjective each when every separate person or thing in a group is considered individually, one by one or piece by piece. If all the guests at your party will go home with a goody bag, you can say that each person will get one. The word each is useful for singling out one instance, item, or person from a larger group. When it's used as an adverb, it basically means "apiece." You might, for example, say, "These cupcakes cost me three dollars each," or "My siblings and I have one cat each — all together, we have six cats in our family." The Old English root of each, , is based on a Germanic phrase that means "ever alike." WORD FAMILYeach USAGE EXAMPLESThere’s no obvious, runaway favorite, so this means we all yell at each other about it for several weeks. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) It will also see the distance between Mars and Venus get smaller as Venus gets higher each night. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Of almost 10,000 bird species worldwide, about 130 species were seen here during counts in each of the past three years. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj (used of count nouns) every one considered individually each person is mortal each party is welcome Syn all quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class 2adv to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) they received $10 each Syn apiece, for each one, from each one, to each one |
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