单词 | we |
释义 | we I. 1. a. < 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. < when we mind labor, then only, we're too old — Robert Browning > 2. < 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 < to poor we thine enmity's most capital — Shakespeare > < the likes of we > b. chiefly substandard < 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. < 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. < 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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