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You can picture 'him' as the pointing-back word you use for a male who has already come up: once a man, boy, or male animal is on the table, 'him' is how you refer to him as the one a verb acts on — 'I saw him', 'give it to him'. It is the object form of 'he'.
可以想成一個「回指」用的字，專門指剛剛提過的男性：一旦話題裡出現了某個男人、男孩或公的動物，再講到他、而且他是動作的…更多收起
可以想成一個「回指」用的字，專門指剛剛提過的男性：一旦話題裡出現了某個男人、男孩或公的動物，再講到他、而且他是動作的對象時，就用 him。像 I saw him（我看到他）、give it to him（拿給他）——它是 he 的受格形式。原始詞典資料13 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。
Himname詞源 2
- 1
A surname from Khmer.
himpron/ˈhɪm/
- 1
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- […]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- 2
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
- 3
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- 4
As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
- Now him and Bernie are best friends.
- He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
- 5
Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- Who was there? —Him.
- Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.)
- 6
archaicUsed reflexively: (to) himself.
- Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; [...] But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
- 7
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
- 8
slangA person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
- Stop trying that, you're not him bro.
- Bro thinks he's him.
himnoun/ˈhɪm/
- 1
informalA male person or animal.
- I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
- […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。