1. 1他/她(僅見於書寫,兼指男性或女性)

    In writing, s/he is a short way to say she or he when the person might be male or female, or when you mean any person. You see it in older textbooks, forms, and careful office English: 'If a student is late, s/he must sign in.' People almost never say it out loud as one sound; they read it as 'she or he'. Though actually, a lot of writers have moved on. Singular they ('If a student is late, they must sign in') is now the usual choice in many schools and workplaces, because it is shorter and does not pick a gender. s/he still turns up when someone wants to be careful on paper but does not like they for one person. It is a writing trick, not a word you use in speech.

    「s/he」是書寫用的縮寫,指「她或他」,用在不確定對方性別,或泛指任何人的時候。你會在較舊的教科書、表格和正式的辦公英文裡看到它,例如「If a student is late, s/he must sign in.」。唸出來時幾乎不會唸成一個音,而是當成 she or he 來念。

    不過現在許多學校和職場,常改用單數 they,例如「If a student is late, they must sign in.」,因為比較簡短,也不指定性別。s/he 仍然會在有人想在紙本上謹慎措辭,又不喜歡用 they 指單一個人時出現。它是書寫上的技巧,不是說話時用的字。

組成she and he written as one form, with a slash between the s and he.

同家族的字

  • shethe female half of the written pair
  • hethe male half of the written pair

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。

s/hepron/hi ɔː(ɹ)ʃi/

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    he or she

    • Born as Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge grew up in Essex. S/he was a member of radical art collective COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s, and went on to form Throbbing Gristle with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter.

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。