1. 1(古語)does;他/她/它「做」的古寫

    This is simply an old way of saying “does”. Long ago, English put -th on the end of a verb for he, she, or it: he doth, she hath, it raineth. Today we say does, has, rains. You will see “doth” in Shakespeare, in old church English, and when someone copies that high old style for a joke or a solemn feeling. It is not a different verb and it does not add a new meaning; it is “does” in old clothes. Nobody uses it in normal speech unless they are being funny or theatrical. A line many people still quote is about someone who says “no” so hard that you start to doubt them: “The lady doth protest too much.” If you write “doth” in a school essay about today, it will sound like a costume.

組成do + -th (the old ending for he / she / it)

同家族的字

  • doesthe same form in the English we speak now
  • hathold “has”, with the same -th ending

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。