| 单词 | thee |
| 释义 | thee I. 1. a. archaic — used especially in biblical, ecclesiastical, solemn, or poetical language, and to some extent in the speech of Friends especially among themselves, in contexts where the objective case form of an inflected pronoun is the one to be expected especially as indirect object of a verb < the land … which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee — Exod 13: 5 (Authorized Version) > or as personal object of an impersonal verb < do what seemeth thee good — 1 Sam 1: 23 (Authorized Version) > or as object of a preposition < sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing — Samuel Francis Smith > or as direct object of a verb < I take thee at thy word — Shakespeare > b. — used by reputable writers occasionally from the 14th to the 17th centuries, in many British dialects down to the present day, and in the prevailing usage of the speech of Friends especially among themselves, in contexts where the nominative case form of an inflected pronoun is the one to be expected especially as subject of a verb < don't think I am afraid of such a fellow as thee art — Henry Fielding > or in the predicate after a form of the verb be < proud … that I am not thee — Shakespeare > — in the usage of Friends and in many British dialects usually accompanied by the third person singular form of a verb of which it is the subject < thee still thinks of going to Canada — Harriet B. Stowe > 2. archaic < get thee a sword — Shakespeare > or object of a preposition < when Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man — Te Deum Laudamus > or direct object of a verb < thou bearest thee like a king — Shakespeare > II. III. transitive verb intransitive verb IV. obsolete < well mote ye thee — Edmund Spenser > |
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