| 单词 | that |
| 释义 | that I. 1. a. < who is that > < that is my father > < what kind of tree is that > < that is a maple > < those are my sisters talking to the man in the corner > < those are violets > < he wanted to become a professional writer but that was no easy matter > — often used as subject of a form of the verb be, usually the contracted third person singular present indicative 's, in expressions indicating or implying that the person mentioned in the predicate is following or is expected shortly to follow an approved course of action < hold the pen like this, that's a good girl > < take your medicine, that's a good boy > < that's the boy > — sometimes used disparagingly of a person who has been mentioned by name or otherwise circumstantially identified < the boy who sits across from my daughter in history class offered to take her to the football game but she refused him and told her friends she wouldn't be seen in public with that > b. Scotland c. < he will not be there until eleven o'clock, and I expect to get there before that > < read to the end of the chapter, and after that he went to bed > d. < one of the first major tasks confronting the pioneer was that of clearing some land — W.M.Kollmorgen > < the symptoms of the disease … sounded a good deal like those of polio — Time > < the purest water is that produced by distillation > < the organism that causes Malta fever … is closely related to that responsible for brucellosis — S.A.Waksman > e. f. < I won't sell it for less than fifty dollars and that is that > g. < when you want something you can't have it, and by the time you can have it you've stopped wanting it, but that's life > < wily and destructive — that's foxes for you > 2. a. (1) < those are elm trees and these are maples > < that is porcelain and this is plastic > — contrasted with this (2) < two principles in human nature reign; self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; nor this a good, nor that a bad we call — Alexander Pope > — contrasted with this b. < talking about this and that > — sometimes used as second member of a three-part series with this as the first member and the other as the third < buying this, that, or the other > 3. a. — used as a function word after and to indicate emphatic repetition of the idea expressed by a previous word or phrase which is not necessarily a noun or noun equivalent < he shall pay …, and that soundly — Shakespeare > < he was helpful, and that to an unusual degree > b. — used as a function word immediately before or immediately after a word group consisting of either a verbal auxiliary or a form of the verb be preceded by either there or a personal pronoun subject to indicate emphatic repetition of the idea expressed by a previous verb or predicate noun or predicate adjective < is he capable? He is that > < he told the whole truth; that he did > 4. a. < recognize the truth of that which is true > < one of those who introduced into the United States the results of foreign … scholarship — H.N.Fowler > or in a like function with reference to a relative adverb < the senses are that whereby we experience the material world > or to a relative clause containing no relative pronoun or relative adverb < what's that you say > b. those plural < there are those who think that the time has now come for a further step — Report: (Canadian) Royal Commission on National Development > • - all that - and that - at that - that is II. 1. a. < that dog > < those houses > b. < three o'clock in the afternoon, that last moment when the sun's intensity may be felt — A.N.Lytle > < that little understood … subject of bird migration — F.C.Lincoln > < those topics that lie outside the scope of this book — Fred Hoyle > c. < those little steamers that are Venice's street cars — Claudia Cassidy > < one of those election bets > — often used disparagingly < those feet of his > < that brother of yours > d. < that gentleness … as I was wont to have — Shakespeare > < perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain … to scratch his head — Charles Dickens > 2. a. < this chair or that one > — contrasted with this b. < we argued it this way and we argued it that way — Lilian Balch > — sometimes used as second member of a three-part series with this as the first member and the other as the third < this, that, and the other way > • - that way III. 1. a. (1) — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is a noun equivalent, especially the subject or object of a verb, the predicate nominative after a copulative verb, or the substantive expression anticipated by the expletive it occurring as grammatical subject or object of a verb < that many historic houses … are rapidly disappearing for lack of care has been emphasized by several organizations — Report: (Canadian) Royal Commission on National Development > < courts declare that they have nothing to do with theoretic economics — M.R.Cohen > < the idea is that, without ruining the sport, you want to protect the participants — Charles Oldfather > < it is interesting that so many of the books which have really stirred things up … have been small books — A.J.Nock > < he made it clear that he did not agree > (2) — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause anticipated by the expletive it occurring as subject of a form of the copulative verb be when what follows the copulative verb is an adverb or adverbial phrase logically modifying the verb of the clause introduced by that < it was there that I first met her > < it was almost as if in entreaty or reproach that she put her next question — Walter de la Mare > (3) — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is joined as complement or modifier to a noun or adjective or is in apposition with a noun < we are certain that this is true > < the certainty that this is true > < the fear that something unpleasant may happen > < the fact that you are here > b. (1) — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is the object of a preposition; usually interpreted as being joined with the preposition to form a compound subordinating conjunction; used currently and frequently in only a few combinations, especially but that, except that, in that, notwithstanding that, and save that, and occurring as an archaism in a few others, especially after that, before that, for that, till that, and until that < some of his earlier writings … have become classics in that they are read by most students professionally interested in anthropology — D.G.Mandelbaum > < if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth — Heb 10:26 (Authorized Version) > (2) — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is in absolute construction with a participle; often interpreted as being joined with the participle to form a compound subordinating conjunction < men and women … could yet live in an ideal society provided that they were governed by a hard-living intellectual minority — Maurice Cranston > c. — used as a function word to introduce an exclamatory clause expressing a strong emotion especially of surprise or sorrow or indignation; sometimes preceded by an interjection or other short exclamation < oh Lord! that ever I lived to see this day > < that it should come to this! > < alas! that all we loved of him should be … as if it had not been — P.B.Shelley > 2. a. — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause expressing purpose or desired result < cutting down expenses that her son might inherit an unencumbered estate — W.B.Yeats > — often preceded by so or in order and sometimes by to the end b. — used as a function word to introduce an exclamatory clause expressing a wish; sometimes preceded by an interjection or other short exclamation < oh, that the world could be persuaded of the truth of that maxim — W.S.Gilbert > 3. a. — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause < rejoice that you are lightened of a load — Robert Browning > — often used with should in the clause which it introduces < I am sorry that you should think so > b. — used as a function word after not to introduce a clause making a statement that is understood to be not true and therefore impossible to be taken as the reason or basis for an immediately preceding or following statement < she ignored my suggestion — not that I care > < not that it matters, but the shirts aren't back from the laundry yet > 4. a. — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause expressing consequence, result, or effect < are of sufficient importance that they cannot be neglected — Hannah Wormington > — often preceded by so or such < he gazed so long that both his eyes were dazzled — Alfred Tennyson > b. — used as a function word after a question or negative statement to introduce a clause expressing an appropriate consequence of what is being questioned or denied < am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks — 1 Sam 17:43 (Revised Standard Version) > < I am not a doormat, that you should walk all over me > c. — used as a function word to introduce a negative subordinate clause after a negative main clause and to indicate that what is denied in the subordinate clause is the inevitable result or invariable accompaniment of what is denied in the main clause < I can't speak, that you don't try to insult me — Douglas Jerrold > 5. archaic — used as a function word at the beginning of the second of two subordinate clauses in parallel construction to replace the conjunction which introduces the first such clause < when he had carried Rome and that we looked for no less spoil than glory — Shakespeare > 6. — used as a function word after a subordinating conjunction without modifying its meaning < if that thy bent of love be honorable — Shakespeare > — used currently and frequently in only a few combinations, especially now that 7. a. — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause modifying an adverb or adverbial expression < will go anywhere that he is invited > < the more that doubts assailed me … the louder I apologized — Eugene Lyons > b. obsolete — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is the equivalent of a sentence adverb modifying the entire main clause < thou hast well done that thou art come — Acts 10:33 (Authorized Version) > • - for all that IV. 1. a. — used as a function word to introduce a restrictive relative clause and to serve as a substitute within that clause for the substantive modified by that clause; used in any grammatical relation within the relative clause except that of a possessive or the object of a preceding preposition < a court jester that fell in love with a queen — M.I.Seiden > < the cow that started the Chicago fire — L.A.White > < another conclusion that emerges clearly from this … statement — Times Literary Supplement > < this ideal theater … that he discerns — Stark Young > < those beliefs that demonstrate they are trustworthy — J.L.Childs > < the responsibilities that literature owes to itself — Harry Levin > < a subject that most Americans probably think nothing need be said about — J.W.Clark b. 1907 > < thoughtful journalist and conscientious citizen that he was, he did not look with any satisfaction on that little story — F.L.Mott > — sometimes used after so or such with the implication that the action or state expressed in the clause introduced by that is a real or appropriate consequence of what is expressed by the phrase containing so or such < who is here so base that would be a bondman — Shakespeare > b. — used as a function word to introduce a nonrestrictive relative clause and to serve as a substitute within that clause for the substantive modified by that clause; used in any grammatical relation within the relative clause except that of a possessive or the object of a preceding preposition < out of the forty thousand who were within the walls eight hundred only, that had fled at the first sound of the attack, made their way to the camp — J.A.Froude > < it was his specialty, that he never liked to do when there was a crowd — James Jones > 2. a. < each year that the lectures were given > < I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God — Mk 14:25 (Authorized Version) > < work in the arts is significant in the measure that it has submitted to discipline — General Education in a Free Society > < this author has never been neglected to the same extent that some of his contemporaries have been > < treated with the same respect that others are > b. < has never been here that I know of > < have never met him that I can recall > 3. a. archaic < that thou doest, do quickly — Jn 13:27 (Authorized Version) > b. obsolete < I am that I am — Exod 3:14 (Authorized Version) > < there be that can rule Naples as well as he — Shakespeare > V. 1. dialect < I'm that tired I can hardly walk > 2. a. < it is a hot day … when boys devote themselves principally to conversation and this day was that hot — Booth Tarkington > b. < a nail about that long > 3. dialect < she'll be that pleased when I tell her the news > VI. 1. < civilization, they agree, faces an inexorable alternative, either this or that; but their thises are irreconcilable and even their thats are not the same — Saturday Review > — sometimes used with an initial capital to stand for a proper name which is not mentioned < Squire This and Farmer That whom he had known since boyhood — Max Peacock > — contrasted with this 2. |
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