喜樂美語
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    vA2

    /lets/

    The short form of 'let us'. You say it to suggest doing something together with the person or people you are talking to.

    我們…吧

    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 it as opening a door and through it together: it is 'let us' squeezed into one word, so the speaker is not giving an order to the other person — they are putting themselves inside the action too. Let's go means you and I, both of us, now. That is why it sounds friendly rather than : whatever is being suggested, the speaker is doing it as well.

可以想成把門打開、然後兩個人一起走出去：它是 let us 縮成一個字，所以說話的人並不是在對別人下命令——他把自己…更多收起可以想成把門打開、然後兩個人一起走出去：它是 let us 縮成一個字，所以說話的人並不是在對別人下命令——他把自己也放進了那個動作裡。Let's go 的意思是「你跟我，我們兩個，現在就走」。這也是它聽起來親切、不像使喚人的原因：不管提議做什麼，說話的人自己也一起做。

原始詞典資料2 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。

let'sverb/lɛts/

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    Used to form the cohortative of verbs, equivalent of the first-person plural imperative in some other languages.

    • Let’s eat lunch sometime, shall we?
    • I say let’s dance.
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    Used to form the hortative of verbs, equivalent of the second-person plural imperative in some other languages, chiefly instructional

    • Let’s make sure we don’t forget proper punctuation, let's not let those mistakes happen again.
    • Hey guys, let’s check to make sure that we proofread.

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。