| 单词 | they |
| 释义 | they I. 1. a. < your sons are popular because they dance well > < ask your wife and daughter what they think about it > < we are so used to matches that we can hardly imagine what life was like before they were invented > < today is my neighbors' wedding anniversary but I don't know what presents they are giving each other > — often used with an antecedent that is singular in form but collective in meaning < even if the unofficial minority voted solidly against a government measure — a rare circumstance because they were divided by mutual jealousies — W.T.Stace > < if industry is to do this important job they must understand not only what the men think — E.R.Smith > — sometimes in poetry and in substandard speech used pleonastically together with a noun or group of nouns as subject of a verb < the olives they were not blind to Him — Sidney Lanier > < my father and mother they told me not to do it > — compare he, it, she b. < everyone tries to make the person they love just like themselves — H.D.Skidmore > < no person has a right to any coat of arms (or crest) unless they are the “heir-male” for the time being — Thomas Innes > < the liability for damages lies against whoever is knowingly involved in such sale whether or not they receive any part of the consideration — U.S.Code > 2. < blessed are they that mourn — Mt 5:4 (Authorized Version) > < the mothers who kept score did a fine job but they who did the umpiring left much to be desired — Deerfield (Wisc.) Independent > 3. < curiosity killed a cat, they say > < they are going to hold the commencement exercises outdoors if the weather permits > < he's as lazy as they come > < at Nedroma they think they can make a prodigious crop rise from the earth by inviting the tallest worker to stretch himself at full length in the first furrow — J.G.Frazer > 4. dialect chiefly England < good enough for the likes of they > II. dialect England < its they deserters that commit half the crimes — Rose Macaulay > < if you fetches out they hedges, master … I'll not work for 'ee no more — C.G.Glover > III. < the same they we always mean, … authority, the gods, fate, circumstances — Ralph Ellison > IV. substandard < they's music in the twitter of the bluebird and the jay — J.W.Riley > < they wasn't a house nowhere in sight — Helen Eustis > V. substandard < the kids was sleeping all together in they bed over in the corner — Ralph Ellison > |
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