they的用法總結(jié)大全

1、第 PAGE12 頁 共 NUMPAGES12 頁they的用法總結(jié)大全they的用法總結(jié)大全they的意思pron. 他/她/它們,人們，大家,政府，當(dāng)局,她們they用法they可以用作名詞they是第三人稱的復(fù)數(shù)形式,無性別之分,代表已提到過的一些人或事,在句中多用作主語,通常放在它所指代的名詞之后,偶然也可放在它所指代的詞之前。有時為了防止顯露性別, they也可以代替he, she或it。they后可接whom等引導(dǎo)的定語從句。they用作名詞的用法例句Women used to think they were on the shelf at 30.過去女人一到30歲就認(rèn)為是過了結(jié)婚

2、年齡。They are going to move to a new house next week.下星期他們將遷入新居。I have a dog and a cat, but they fight all the time.我養(yǎng)了一只貓和一只狗，但它們老是打架。they用法例句1、They have maintained their optimism in the face of desolating subjugation.面對遭征服的悲慘命運，他們保持了樂觀的態(tài)度。2、He said they should turn their fire on the Conservative Par

3、ty instead.他說他們應(yīng)該掉轉(zhuǎn)槍口，向保守黨開火。3、They found a labyrinth of tunnels under the ground.他們發(fā)現(xiàn)了一處迷宮似的地道?！皌hey”從一個復(fù)數(shù)名詞變?yōu)閱螖?shù)名詞!那語法應(yīng)該怎么用?早在14世紀(jì)的中古英語中，杰弗里喬叟、威廉莎士比亞、簡奧斯汀等知名作家就將they作為單數(shù)形式進(jìn)展使用?！癆nd whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, They wol e up . . .”Chaucer, The Pardoners Prologue (c. 1395)“不管是誰唱的贊美詩，Ta都會來的.”

4、-喬叟“Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should oerhear the speech.” Shakespeare, Hamlet“母親對兒子總會有點偏袒，所以最好有個第三者悄悄聽聽看?！?莎士比亞，哈姆雷特同時，除了使用they，代詞he也被認(rèn)為可以作中性詞使用?！癝uppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would depend on his

5、winning or losing a game of chess.” Thomas Huxley, A Liberal Education (1868)“假使真的存在這么一種情況，即我們每個人的生命和財產(chǎn)有一天要由自己在象棋比賽中的輸贏決定，那么，你們不認(rèn)為我們的首要任務(wù)是對象棋進(jìn)展一定的學(xué)習(xí)嗎?”-托馬斯亨利赫胥黎，通識教育“If any one did not know it, it was his own fault.” George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days (1879)“假如有人不知道，那就是他自己的錯?！?喬治華盛頓凱布爾，克里奧爾人和過

6、去的年代2. 19世紀(jì)的性別通用he的趨勢18世紀(jì)中葉后，倡導(dǎo)在非正式英語中使用he而非they的用法。1895年的語法(Baskervill, W.M.與Sewell, J.W.的An English Grammar for the Use of High School, Academy and College Class)標(biāo)記了they可以作為單數(shù)名詞的用法，但也特別推薦使用代詞he。指代X性別：“the ideal that every boy and girl should be so equipped that he American English Grammar, (1940)“

7、理想是每個男孩和女孩都應(yīng)該有的，這使他在社會進(jìn)步的斗爭中不受阻礙.”-查爾斯卡本特弗里斯指代兩元性別的人：“She and Louis had a gamewho could find the ugliest photograph of himself.” Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (1971)“她和路易士玩游游戲，各自找出自己最難看的照片。”-約瑟P拉什3. 20世紀(jì)開場趨于適用性別中性語言在20世紀(jì)的下半個世紀(jì)，女權(quán)者關(guān)注“性別歧視”的男性導(dǎo)向式語言。其中“he”作為性別通用代詞就引發(fā)了許多爭議。于是就出現(xiàn)了一些人在性別未知的情況下，偏向用t

8、hey來表示個體，作為單數(shù)代詞來使用。例如早在2022年2月就有56個性別可供選擇。除了最傳統(tǒng)的“男”“女”二元選項外，還包括Gender Nonconforming：非常規(guī)性別，指回絕承受傳統(tǒng)性別二元區(qū)分的人，選擇這一選項的人，強調(diào)的是自己的回絕特征：我不屬于傳統(tǒng)二元，但我也不會去準(zhǔn)確定位自己的位置。Gender Questioning：性別存疑，指對自己的性別歸屬不完全確定、還沒有找到最合適自己的性別認(rèn)同標(biāo)簽的人。Gender Variant：變體性別，和非常規(guī)性別類似。Genderqueer：酷兒性別 和非常規(guī)性別類似。Non-binary：非二元，和非常規(guī)性別類似。Agender：無性

9、別，指沒有發(fā)育性別、或者沒有感覺到自己有任何強烈性別歸屬的人。Gender Fluid：流性人，指在不同時間經(jīng)歷性別認(rèn)知改變的人。英國歌手山姆史密斯(Sam Smith)近來在推特上表示，希望外界要以英文代詞稱呼自己時，請使用“They/Them”，并非傳統(tǒng)的“He/Him”，因為他并非屬于男或女的二元性別。They的單數(shù)用法 made quite a splash lately. Not with a new service or the announcement of some smashing financial results. Instead, the pany will allow

10、 users to choose something besides “Male” or “Female” for the gender on their profile. Its a change that transgender people and others who do not feel 100% male or female have greeted with joy and relief.s radical moveradical in the best sensewas acpanied by another, but altogether less radical, cha

11、nge. If someone doesnt want to be known as either male or female, that same person will not want to see, on others pages, the message “Wish him a happy birthday!” or “Wish her a happy birthday!” How should they be referred to?The answer is in that last sentence. The antecedent to the pronoun is some

12、one, and the pronoun is, of course, they. Now, someone is grammatically singular (it takes a singular verb), and they is in most cases semantically plural (conjuring a group, not an individual). So some grammatical traditionalists think “singular they” is always wrong. But in fact, singular “they” i

13、s as traditional as it gets.How so? English has a gap in its pronoun set. We often need to refer to an unknown person (“someone”, “anyone”, “a doctor” and the like). If we later use a pronoun for that same person, of unknown or unimportant sex, some traditionalists say that “he” is the best solution

14、someone is singular, so the pronoun must be too. But while he matches in number, it is a mismatch in gender: there is a strong chance the unknown referent is female. This “traditional” solution is flawed.But traditionalists need not panic. Singular they has appeared in the finest English writing for

15、 centuries.“And whoso fyndeth hym out of switch blame, they wol e up” (Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”)“And everyone to rest themselves betake” (Shakespeare, “The Rape of Lucrece”)“If ye from your hearts forgive not every one their trespasses” (King James Bible, Matthew 18:35)“I would have everybo

16、dy marry if they can do it properly” (Jane Austen, “Mansfield Park”).It is only in more recent centuries that some grammarians began to insist that the pronoun be singular, and that he should be thought of as gender-neutral. But recent psychological research has shown that the so-called “generic he”

17、 does call up the image of a man or boy. In the modern world, it makes little sense to expose young women and girls to repeated instances of A lawyer should know his clients needs or A good doctor always listens to his patients. And that is even before we get to intersex, transsexual and other cases

18、.Most of the alternatives to singular they are worse. He or she is ugly, especially on repetition. Our “Style Guide” says that generic he is fine, perhaps to alternate with the occasional generic she. But this can seem cutesy, or at the very least distracting. And all suggestions for invented new ge

19、nder-neutral pronouns have failed: pronouns (unlike nouns and verbs) are a “closed class” of words, almost never admitting new members. A childrens author has tried again recently in Sweden; it is too soon to tell if it will succeed, but the smart money would be against.Faced with this conundrum, wh

20、at to do? To recap, the options are- be inaccurate and potentially sexist (generic he)- be awkward and ugly (he or she)- switch he and she at random- invent something that will never work (new pronouns)- do what Caxton, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Thackeray, Spenser and countless others have done,

21、 and what you probably do in informal speech yourself (singular they) made a surprisingly easy choice.There will always be those who think singular they is wrong. (Our style guide calls it “scrambled syntax”.) Where avoiding distracting or annoying such people is paramount in your writing, the best solution is to reword, putting things in the plural to go round the choice. (Make The careful writer keeps his readers in mind into Careful writers keep their readers in mind.) But sometimes this s