单词 | an |
释义 | an I. < an oak > < an hour > < an X ray > (2) usually in speech and often in writing before h-initial words beginning with an unstressed or lightly stressed syllable in which \h\ may or may not be pronounced < an historian > < an heroic > (3) sometimes (less often now than formerly) before words whose initial letter is a vowel and whose initial sounds are \yü\ or \yu̇\ or \w\ in one < an European > < an unique > < such an one > (4) sometimes in speech and writing and regularly in the Old Testament (AV) before a stressed syllable in h-initial words < an hundred > < an heritage > II. < once an afternoon > < earns three dollars an hour > III. or an' 1. < he would sit an let on to be learning — Wright Morris > 2. < an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe — Ben Jonson > IV. 1. 2. 3. 4. |
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