| 释义 |
they/ðei/pron. (obj. them; poss. their, theirs) 1 the people, animals, or things previously named or in question (pl. of HE, SHE, IT1) 他们；她们；它们 (HE, SHE, IT 的复数) 2 people in general (泛指)人们 they say we are wrong 人们说我们错了 3 those in authority (权力部门的)那些人 they have raised the fees 那些人把费用提高了 4 disp. as a third person sing. indefinite pronoun meaning ‘he or she’ [异议] (用作第三人称单数不定代词)他；她 anyone can come if they want to 任何人想来都可以来; if you have a friend you want to invite, feel free to bring them along 如果你想邀请你的一位朋友，尽管带他来好了 [Middle English thei, obj. theim, from Old Norse their nominative pl. masc., theim dative pl., of sɑˊ ‘that’]■ Usage 用法说明 The use of they instead of ‘he or she’ (see sense 4 above) is common in spoken English and increasingly so in written English, although still deplored by some people. It is particularly useful when the sex of the person is unspecified or unknown and the writer wishes to avoid the accusation of sexism that can arise from the use of he. Similarly, their can replace ‘his’ or ‘his or her’ and themselves ‘himself’ or ‘himself or herself’, e.g. Everyone must provide their own lunch; Did anyone hurt themselves in the accident? 尽管仍然有人反对，用 they 而不用 he or she (见上文释义 4) 在口语里是很普遍的，在书面英语里现在也逐渐普遍起来。尤其是当人物性别不确定或不知道时，作者想避免因使用 he 而引起性别上的指责时， they 就特别有用。同理， their 可代替 his 或 his or her ， themselves 可代替 himself 或 himself or herself ，如 : Everyone must provide their own lunch (每人均自备午餐)； Did anyone hurt themselves in the accident? (有人在事故中受伤吗？) |