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    /æn/

    Used before a word that starts with a vowel sound, to mean 'one' or 'any one' of something.

    一(個)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can think of 'an' as pointing at just one of many — like reaching into a basket and pulling out some single item, not a special one, just any one. It is 'a' wearing a different coat: we switch to 'an' only because the next word opens with a vowel sound (an apple, an hour), so the two words flow smoothly off the tongue.

可以想成「an」是在一堆東西裡隨手點出其中一個——不是指定哪一個,就是「任何一個、某一個」。它其實就是「a」換了一件更多收起可以想成「an」是在一堆東西裡隨手點出其中一個——不是指定哪一個,就是「任何一個、某一個」。它其實就是「a」換了一件外衣:只因為後面那個字是母音開頭(an apple、an hour),唸起來才把 a 改成 an,讓兩個音順順地連在一起。

原始詞典資料16 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ANnoun詞源 1

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    governmentmilitarypoliticsA set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy.

anarticle詞源 1/ˈæn/

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    Form of a (all article senses).

    • I'll be there in half an hour.
    • 'E's staying at an 'otel. (compare He's staying at a hotel.)
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    Form of a (all article senses).

    • 1 I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my crie. 2 He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.
    • The Province of Nanking, by the Tartars called Kiangnan, is the ſecond in honour, in magnitude and fertility in all China : It is divided into 14 great Territories, having Cities and Towns an hundred and ten; Nanking, or Kiangning being the Metropolis; a City, that if ſhe did not exceed moſt Cities on the Earth in bigneſs and beauty, yet ſhe was inferior to few, for her Pagodes, her Temples, her Porcelane Towers, her Palaces and Triumphal Arches. Fungiang, Sucheu, Sunkiang, Leucheu, Hoaigan, Ganking, Ningue, Hoeicheu, are alſo eminent places, and of great Note and Trade.
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    rareForm of a (all article senses).

    • God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
    • My hopes, from my earliest years, have been hopes of celebrity as a writer- not of wealth, or of influence, or of accomplishing any of the thousand aims which furnish the great bulk of mankind with motives. You will laugh at me. There is something so emphatically shadowy and unreal in the object of this ambition, that even the full attainment of its provokes a smile. For who does not know 'How vain that second life in others' breath, The estate which wits inherit after death!' And what can be more fraught with the ludicrous than an union of this shadowy ambition with mediocre parts and attainments! But I digress.
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    Form of a (all article senses).

annum詞源 1/ˈæn/

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    one

anconj詞源 2/ˈæn/

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    archaicIf

    • […] An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
    • Thereupon, quoth he, "O woman, for sundry days I have seen thee attend the levée sans a word said; so tell me an thou have any requirement I may grant."
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    archaicSo long as.

    • An it harm none, do what ye will.
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    archaicAs if; as though.

    • At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.

announ詞源 3/ˈæn/

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    The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).

anprep詞源 4/ˈæn/

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    In each; to or for each; per.

    • I was only going twenty miles an hour.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。