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单词 we
释义 we
I. \(|)wē, _wi, before “ʸre” or “are” usually (ˌ)wi\ pronoun, plural in construction
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wē; akin to Old High German wir we, Old Norse vēr, Gothic weis, Sanskrit vayam
1.
 a. : I and the rest of a group that includes me : you and I : you and I and another or others : I and another or others not including you — used as a nominative pronoun of the first person plural as the subject of a verb
  < we live here >
  < we the people of the United States … do ordain and establish this constitution — U.S. Constitution >
  or in the predicate after a copulative verb
  < it is we who are the virtuous ones — Vance Packard >
  or in comparisons after than or as when the first term in the comparison is a subject
  < you know as much about it as we >
  or in some absolute constructions
  < ignorant, you say? we? >
  or after but in a compound subject
  < none but we may say this >
  — used archaically as subject of an immediately preceding verb to introduce a request or proposal made by the speaker or writer to the group that includes himself where the current construction in ordinary present-day English consists of let us or let's followed by the verb
  < prepare we for our marriage — Shakespeare >
  — see our, us; compare i, ours
 b. : people in general including the speaker or writer
  < when we mind labor, then only, we're too old — Robert Browning >
2. : i II 1 — used by kings and other sovereigns
 < our sometime sister, now our queen … have we … taken to wife — Shakespeare >
— used by editors and other writers to keep an impersonal character or to avoid the egotistical sound of a repeated I
3.
 a. dialect chiefly England : us — used emphatically as object of a verb or preposition
  < to poor we thine enmity's most capital — Shakespeare >
  < the likes of we >
 b. chiefly substandard : us — used in a compound object or in apposition with a following noun
  < he disturbed those in the dining room, those in the hall, and even we who had retired upstairs >
  < as to we men — Fanny Burney >
4. : you — used coaxingly (as to a child)
 < we don't want to wake Daddy, do we >
or encouragingly (as to a patient)
 < how are we feeling this morning >
or in sarcasm
 < aren't we getting a little impudent >
II. \ˈwē\ noun
(-s)
: a group that is consciously felt as such by its members
 < the crowd is like a community in that it can be any size, the difference being that the We precedes the I — Howard Griffin >
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