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Shan’t is the short form of shall not. You glue n’t onto shall: I shall not go becomes I shan’t go. It does the same jobs as shall not — saying that something will not happen, or that you refuse. You will meet it in British books, in older speech, and in children’s stories (“I shan’t!”). Though actually, many young British people almost never say it now; they use won’t. American speakers barely use it at all, except as a joke or when copying British talk. In American school writing, won’t or shall not is what people expect. Keep the : shan’t, not shant. It is the same kind of short form as can’t and don’t, only much rarer, and it feels old in a way those two do not.
「shall not」的縮寫(偏英式,現在也偏舊)
原始詞典資料1 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。
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。