| 单词 | person |
| 释义 | person (once / 13 pages) 1n 2n A human being is called a person, and while this applies to an actual individual, it also, in grammar, means the type of person — first person being "I/me," second person being "you," and third person being "he/him," "she/her," or "they/them." The Latin persōna referred to an actor's mask that created the character being played. This later came to mean "human being," a meaning it still conveys. You can also use it to refer to a person's physical body. I wouldn't recommend crossing the border with any illegal items on your person. Nowadays, the word person replaces "man" to avoid sexism in words such as "congressperson." WORD FAMILYperson: foreperson, nonperson, personable, personal, personhood, personify, persons, unperson+/depersonalise: depersonalisation, depersonalising/depersonalize: depersonalization, depersonalized, depersonalizing/impersonal: impersonally/interpersonal: interpersonally/nonperson: nonpersons/personable: personableness, personabler, personably/personal: impersonal, interpersonal, nonpersonal, personalise, personality, personalize, personally, personals/personalise: depersonalise, personalised, personalising/personality: personalities/personalize: depersonalize, personalized, personalizes, personalizing/personification: personifications/personify: personification, personified, personifies, personifying/unperson: unpersons USAGE EXAMPLESDuring the 30 weeks of the show, the contestants lost an average of over 125 pounds per person. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) He is a genuine person who lives by a strict moral code, and he expects to be treated fairly. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) “I’m not an email person myself,” Trump echoed during that infamous July news conference in which he invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a human being there was too much for one person to do Syn|Hyper individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul being, organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently causal agency, causal agent, causeany entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results 2n a human body (usually including the clothing) 2a weapon was hidden on his person Hyper anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma alternative names for the body of a human being n a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party stop talking about yourself in the third person Hypo|Hyper first person pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur second personpronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur third personpronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur grammatical category, syntactic category (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties |
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